(OC) AI 'art' and the future

[u/SylvieXX]

Could be controversial but I'm just gonna say it... I don't like AI... and for me it was never about it not looking good. There are obviously more factors to this whole thing, like about people losing jobs, about how the whole thing is just stealing, and everything like that but I'm just focusing on one fundamental aspect that I think about a lot... I just wanted to draw what I feel...! 🥲🥲 Sorry about the cringe but I actually live for cringe 💖

[u/thari_23]

Honestly, even if AI has the ability to make perfect "art" as easily as this, I think people will continue to make human art. It's in our nature to do so.

[u/smallfried → u/thari_23]

In the same way I myself make art as a non-artist: it's not as good as all the stuff already out there and I will never make any money with it.

My kid likes my art though, because they themselves are still worse than me.

[u/Zunderfeuer_88 → u/smallfried]

Believe me, it is a very personal expression that communicates so much of who you are as a person and how you think and feel. Added to that, I can recently attest to it that at some point, this will be something your kid can cherish as a memory should you not be there anymore, I would give so much to have more of my fathers works and thoughts in any form.

[u/TheNarwhalGal → u/smallfried]

If you make art, you’re an artist, that’s the only qualification. There’s no special club, no benchmark you have to cross. You’re already there dude. Doesn’t have to be professional, doesn’t have to be ‘good’. All that matters is that you’re making it.

[u/Nawara_Ven → u/thari_23]

Yeah, the contemporary "death of creatives" already happened, as far as I can tell; the 2007 writers' strike was the impetus, as "'Reality' TV" was spawned. (One could argue the timing should actually be earlier, as writers weren't valued for their work leading up to the strike, but I digress.)

We've already shown that there's a huge (and presumably very profitable) audience for mindless, artist-less† crap. But, the extremely silver lining on this cloud is the push in the other direction; we've entered the era of "prestige TV" and the like. We're seeing some of the best stories ever in TV and the like, in the same medium that we're getting some of the most creatively bankrupt nonsense in the history of moving picture boxes.

In other words, some people just don't like art. And we should be fine with that. The Vandals, Visigoths, and Philistines†† were hating on art before it was cool to do so. But that hatin' is always side-by-side with art-likers constantly enjoying the best art ever.

†I will concede that the editors of Love on a Literally Sinking Ship or House Full of Randy Young People But the Floor is Actual Lava are quite masterful in their craft, and I could count them as "artists" the same way that the CompSci engineers at OpenAI are or whatever; credit where credit is due.

††Historical nuance purposely missing for the purpose of dramatic emphasis.

[u/Mickeymcirishman → u/Nawara_Ven]

Reality TV started in the 90s.

[u/ifandbut → u/thari_23]

And there is no AI that is PREVENTING anyone from making art

It is an optional tool, nothing more.

[u/BrianWonderful → u/ifandbut]

If you have no way to support your life as an artist because no one sees your work or compensates you for your work due to the glut of AI (especially on-demand AI) "art", then yes, AI might actually prevent people from making art.

Art is not just some side hobby. Even for those that it is, they are inspired by art that is created by career artists (paintings, photography, comics, movies, television, music, etc.). If those are no longer sustainable careers because the AI will just do it, it chokes out any real new invention of art.

[u/Wild_Marker → u/ifandbut]

Well... tell that to the lizard people who want to replace their art workers with AI. Artists gotta eat.

[u/Germane_Corsair → u/Wild_Marker]

Something humans are always complaining about.

[u/Little_Froggy → u/thari_23]

Just like how photorealistic art still exists despite photography being able to give the same kind of output! But photorealistic art is damn impressive in comparison. Most photos are just practical