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We heard this same argument when cameras were invented. Yet some of the most valuable paintings in the world were created in the 20th century. We heard it agai
by briandear 2y ago
We heard this same argument when cameras were invented. Yet some of the most valuable paintings in the world were created in the 20th century.
We heard it again when electronic music started becoming a thing.
Formula 1 wouldn’t exist if the blacksmiths had their way.
The unknown scares people because they are afraid of their known paradigms being shattered. But the new things ahead are often beyond anything of which we could ever dream.
Be optimistic.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoOne must not use analogy to analyze individual technologies. People were afraid of the camera, yes, but the camera does not attempt to replace painting. AI attempts to replace photography, painting, and all sorts of art with something that looks like the real thing. Photography never tried to do that, as photographs don't look anything like paintings.
- ToValueFunfetti 2y agoWhen the camera was invented, it did replace what paintings were used for at the time. Photographs don't look like paintings, but up until the camera paintings were trying to look like photographs. It's no coincidence that impressionism arrived at the same time as the camera.
- vouaobrasil 2y agoThere is a difference between replacing usage and replacing the exact art and the people who make it. Yes, the camera influenced painting, but it did not destroy it. AI attempts to destroy natural human expression.
- hindsightbias 2y agoIs anyone working on a painting robot that would use colors, strokes and textures based off of great painters?
- hyperG 2y agoYou are just wrong. Before the camera, portrait painting was how most painters would make their living and the camera upended that completely. On the last line, look up hyperrealist painter on a search engine. That is the reverse , an artistic movement in painting inspired by the photograph.