(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/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.