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Remember how electronic synthetizers ended musicians? Any idiot could "play" guitar without even knowing how to hold it.

wkat4242 2y ago
I don't think that's the same thing. One still needs skill to play one (though it's a keyboard skill rather than a strings one) and they don't even really sound like a guitar. I've actually tried it because I can't play a real guitar due to the finger pressure needed to push the strings. But learning to play a keyboard is not easy either and I simply have no talent for music. With AI no skills are needed, you just type a prompt and get some result. I know it's not really generating. It's more like a smart copy paste combinator. But it's very low effort for the operator. As a result it's not really even their work as they hardly took part in creating it. It's already leading to a huge amount of low effort mediocre content flooding the market that real artists will have to compete with. This was the point made in the video.
- squigz 2y ago
  > With AI no skills are needed, you just type a prompt and get some result. With photography, no skills are needed; you just point the camera and take a picture. Right?
  - wkat4242 2y ago
    No. But if you had an assistant to take the photo, you wouldn't need those skills. Generative AI is more like that. You could use Dall-E 3 for this scenario (it's quite good at it actually).
    - EGreg 2y ago
      But now the art is in telling the assistant your words! In the future, we'll be outsourcing all our work to smart agents. I have already been outsourcing most of my own work, money generation, and money spending to Elon Musk. He mostly does a good job working for me. So I can focus on what I want instead.
- scotty79 2y ago
  > One still needs skill to play one For guitar players it's just skill-less button pressing. > I've actually tried it because I can't play a real guitar due to the finger pressure needed to push the strings. Excuses brought up by talent-less and lazy. Every guitar player bleeds as they learn. It's part of the craft. > With AI no skills are needed, you just type a prompt and get some result And yet people spend hours crafting those prompts, they share them. Some idiots even would like to copyright them. Clearly no skill and effort involved. Anybody can do it on the first try. Just like with pushing buttons on a synthesizer. > It's already leading to a huge amount of low effort mediocre content flooding the market that real artists will have to compete with. Exactly! Remember how every average Joe bought a synthesizer, published their "work" on homemade VHS tapes and all got famous and rich putting all real guitar players out of their jobs? If you couldn't tell by now I'm half joking. AI is probably a more powerful invention than any other previous one. But it's not unique and neither is its cultural influence.

wkat4242 2y ago

I don't think that's the same thing. One still needs skill to play one (though it's a keyboard skill rather than a strings one) and they don't even really sound like a guitar. I've actually tried it because I can't play a real guitar due to the finger pressure needed to push the strings. But learning to play a keyboard is not easy either and I simply have no talent for music. With AI no skills are needed, you just type a prompt and get some result. I know it's not really generating. It's more like a smart copy paste combinator. But it's very low effort for the operator. As a result it's not really even their work as they hardly took part in creating it. It's already leading to a huge amount of low effort mediocre content flooding the market that real artists will have to compete with. This was the point made in the video.

squigz 2y ago
> With AI no skills are needed, you just type a prompt and get some result. With photography, no skills are needed; you just point the camera and take a picture. Right?
- wkat4242 2y ago
  No. But if you had an assistant to take the photo, you wouldn't need those skills. Generative AI is more like that. You could use Dall-E 3 for this scenario (it's quite good at it actually).
  - EGreg 2y ago
    But now the art is in telling the assistant your words! In the future, we'll be outsourcing all our work to smart agents. I have already been outsourcing most of my own work, money generation, and money spending to Elon Musk. He mostly does a good job working for me. So I can focus on what I want instead.
scotty79 2y ago
> One still needs skill to play one For guitar players it's just skill-less button pressing. > I've actually tried it because I can't play a real guitar due to the finger pressure needed to push the strings. Excuses brought up by talent-less and lazy. Every guitar player bleeds as they learn. It's part of the craft. > With AI no skills are needed, you just type a prompt and get some result And yet people spend hours crafting those prompts, they share them. Some idiots even would like to copyright them. Clearly no skill and effort involved. Anybody can do it on the first try. Just like with pushing buttons on a synthesizer. > It's already leading to a huge amount of low effort mediocre content flooding the market that real artists will have to compete with. Exactly! Remember how every average Joe bought a synthesizer, published their "work" on homemade VHS tapes and all got famous and rich putting all real guitar players out of their jobs? If you couldn't tell by now I'm half joking. AI is probably a more powerful invention than any other previous one. But it's not unique and neither is its cultural influence.