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I don’t remember where I read it, but this all boils down to the one quote:
“AI should be used by creative people to remove tedium. It shouldn’t be used by tedious people to remove creativity”
AI is like a microwave. It’s always quick and easy, but if you try to cook a steak dinner with it, it’s going to be shit. However, sometimes all you need to do is reheat last night’s pasta.
Completely unrelated:
Reheat food the same way you cooked it. Put the pasta in a nonstick skillet on the stove and bring up to temp that way, it’ll be 10x better and taste much closer to fresh.
To make this relevant: AI is an effective tool if all you want is quick and easy. But if you want it to be good, you’ll have to expend some effort yourself.
I get where the artist is coming from and I largely agree. However when he says that consumers don’t like consuming AI art, I think he’s biased by being surrounded by consumers who like his art.
The average Joe does not care if it’s AI art. People with good taste generally do care, but most people have terrible taste. That is why AI art is taking the world by storm - it’s good enough to get mass appeal even though it’s objectively worse than a real artist.
Agreed. AI slop is literally everywhere. It has ultra saturated the internet more than I think any of us are even really aware of. The fact that there are countless AI generated articles, images, videos, songs, etc that are getting millions and millions of human engagement says all we need to know.
After playing Cyberpunk 2077 a few years ago and now witnessing the rise of hyper AI slopdom, I genuinely believe we’ll hit a point where we have to count the current Internet as a lost cause and create a new one that’s fully firewalled from the old one. Bots will only get smarter, more efficient, and more numerous as the AI era marches onwards. It’s catapulting us further and further into a post-truth society, causing immeasurable damage. With the way the Internet is structured and engineered, there’s no effective way of battling it. The current Internet belongs to AI/bots, and countless people are completely fine with it and/or happily ignorant of it.
I put AI art with memes. Specifically the memes that are text over an image.
They are a way for someone who has an idea to share, but not the means to create it. It’s just a little joke, and if we laugh, we appreciate it for what it is, a good idea.
Are people buying the AI art? That’s really the question. If artists can’t sustain themselves, then they’ll have to go into other industries. The pocketbooks are really what is going to decide the future here.
Anecdotally, yes, my artist friends have seen a decline in commissions because it’s so easy and cheap for people to do “good enough” for their D&D character portraits and the like.
until I find out that it’s AI art.
This is a description of prejudice. You saw something - you felt something - and then you tried to un-care. Judgement on the work changes based on its provenance. The text has become wrong, because the artist was a robot. It was generated degenerate.
The feeling isn’t a choice.
It is, though. You can freely abandon this opinion. Changing your mind doesn’t take a miracle.
CGI is a great comparison, because it has robbed us of a certain magic. You no longer go ‘how the fuck did they do that?!,’ because the answer is, computers. They used computers. The cameraman didn’t need hiding; they drew over his reflection. The camera didn’t fit through there; they composited two shots. No stunt double was in danger; they rendered the actor.
All the old magic remains possible… but it’s no longer necessary. It is still wonderful when movies like Crank abuse tiny cameras to pass one through a moving vehicle. It is still wonderful when movies show a crowd, and used hundreds of real people. But now there are other ways to put those images in front of people’s eyeballs. The new ways are massively simpler and flexible to a fault. Recognizing and spitting at those ways was a popular group-bonding activity for a couple decades. And then we got over it.
Nobody seems to want it.
I want it. A program that draws anything is cool, actually. Photoreal video, on demand, is obviously fantastic. That shit was nigh impossible even with computers. Now it’s a filter. I am excited for the few people using these tools properly, instead of going ‘look what I made!’ or performatively scoffing.
Nobody worth giving a damn about wants this technology.
Ah, no true Scotsman wants it. Since I do not kneejerk un-care when I notice a funny idea was described to a robot, I am an uncultured charlatan.
When you observe talent in others, what you’re mostly seeing is skill.
Distinction without difference.
No shit I could play piano. But I can’t. Ability is present-tense. Aside from rare dipshits who think every piano player is a natural virtuoso, folks understand talent and skill are the same damn thing.
I’ve written music, though. Developing the ability to play it myself, instead of hearing the computer play it, was not necessary. And by letting the computer play it, I was able to focus on what I wanted it to sound like, instead of whether I was playing it right.
