>>212317772If you create a reproducible function-driven product for sale and/or consumption, then AI can replace you. If you make Art, it can't (yet). You, most of you, are not Artists. I'm sorry if you were lied to and told that you were, but you're not. You're a skilled craftsman. That's fine. You have a right to be angry that you are becoming obsolete. Many craftsmen have. But you don't have a right to claim that your plight is harder than theirs, or that it is more righteous.
I don't think it's good. I'm not in love with progress for progress's sake. But don't get hypocritical. If you're a luddite, admit it. Don't lie through your teeth and don't lie to yourself. What makes you so special? Oh it stole your "style"? No man is an island. No art is uninfluenced. Copyright/patent/trademark on intellectual property in terms of "style" has always been a pretty flimsy thing, and moreover do you think you're alone? Do you think factories didn't "steal" techniques and designs from early automobile manufacturers, foundries from blacksmiths, sewing machines from seamstresses? What makes visual creators different from any artisans? Is it the blurry line between a visual media creation and true art (other crafts have the same blurriness - where does woodworking as a craft end and woodworking as an art begin, or pottery etc.) Is it the fact that the visual arts have long been the face of capital-A Art? Or, and be honest with yourself, is just the simple fact that "art" has two often-conflated meanings? (1. "art" visual creation; vs 2. "art" creative expression)
You got the democratization of art. It led to a system where the filtering is closer to the traditional creative process than is the actual creation, wherein halfbaked things are pumped out hourly, posted instantly, and resonance is determined by audience/critics/algorithm rather than by the creator themselves.
It leads to a pretty easy gap for generative ai to fill at the "creative" stage of the process.