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Sad to see the downvotes on this well thought out post. Kudos! The parallels between the history of the disruption brought by photography, the musical sampler

Sad to see the downvotes on this well thought out post. Kudos! The parallels between the history of the disruption brought by photography, the musical sampler (another disruptive technology in the late 1980s/early 1990s that is now widely accepted with minimal angst) etc. with the current outcries against Generative AI are hard for me to ignore. Humans grab acoustic guitars, sing with their own voices and often just add hackneyed dreck to our ears. Humans now can type words into their computers and have found another way to often unleash more dreck to our ears powered by Generative AI. But I am deeply interested in Generative AI for its sonic exploration possibilities -- maybe what I make will sound like dreck to you, but I want to be free to do so, just like someone who wants to grab a guitar and sing.

ronsor 1y ago
Most of the criticism is from bandwagoning and emotion rather than critical thought. People screech and gnash their teeth as if the evil developers and AI researchers are conspiring to destroy all art ever; it's quite frankly ridiculous. You narrowed down the important aspect: personal freedom. It's not about AI, or cameras, or samplers, or synthesizers, or automated this or that, it's about giving people the freedom to do an activity how they want. It's terribly sad that others cry for the removal of this freedom and brand it as some noble cause.
api 1y ago
To me the crisis of art today is not AI, it's discovery. People all over the world are making great art. How do I find it in an ocean of human-made mediocrity and now AI-churned slop? How do we discover new artists? I sometimes go looking for new writers and new music. It's very time consuming. I'll spend hours and hours to find maybe one new piece I like. Most of that time is sifting through stuff that's just unremarkable. Social media used to help, but now social media is just a flood of dreck. AI is making this problem worse, but not exactly for the reason the AI bashers say. It's not that AI makes art obsolete or that AI can't be used to make real art. It's the AI makes it so easy to make dreck, it's flooding the zone even more.

ronsor 1y ago

Most of the criticism is from bandwagoning and emotion rather than critical thought. People screech and gnash their teeth as if the evil developers and AI researchers are conspiring to destroy all art ever; it's quite frankly ridiculous. You narrowed down the important aspect: personal freedom. It's not about AI, or cameras, or samplers, or synthesizers, or automated this or that, it's about giving people the freedom to do an activity how they want. It's terribly sad that others cry for the removal of this freedom and brand it as some noble cause.

api 1y ago

To me the crisis of art today is not AI, it's discovery. People all over the world are making great art. How do I find it in an ocean of human-made mediocrity and now AI-churned slop? How do we discover new artists? I sometimes go looking for new writers and new music. It's very time consuming. I'll spend hours and hours to find maybe one new piece I like. Most of that time is sifting through stuff that's just unremarkable. Social media used to help, but now social media is just a flood of dreck. AI is making this problem worse, but not exactly for the reason the AI bashers say. It's not that AI makes art obsolete or that AI can't be used to make real art. It's the AI makes it so easy to make dreck, it's flooding the zone even more.