Independent_Canary89 t1_j1wpmtu wrote on December 27, 2022 at 11:32 PM

Nah, it's far cheaper for both personal, and business use that wants art. Major business can save dramatic costs on design, and people wanting commissions can save money on their end.

Art as an industry is a walking corpse, and art as a hobby is honestly isn't going to adapt well to the world we're going towards. People are going to be working long, manual labor jobs for the foreseeable future. And I don't think that gap of knowledge will be bridged after who knows how many years of scarce, human-made art when it can be processed in a prompt. No one will have time to develop art skills, and it is a legit grind in order to learn the fundamentals and the process in order to be half-decent. Just the ways of things I suppose.

thetwitchy1 OP t1_j1wye8v wrote on December 28, 2022 at 12:36 AM

Also, Art, when done by people, is usually done to express an emotional message. It is done because NOT doing it feels wrong.

I have written many stories, some even to the size of novels, not for the recognition, and certainly not for the money… but because NOT writing the story felt wrong. I had something to say, and the best way to do it was through writing.

Good art, REAL art, is communication: you feel something that the artist is drawing out of you. It’s one of the reasons AI art falls flat a lot of the time: the feeling is there, but it’s drawn from so many sources and synthesized from so many things that it is random. Like pulling words from the dictionary because they sound good together and putting them in a song, it’s nice and pretty and meaningless.

That doesn’t mean that AI art doesn’t have a place in our world. AI art is great for making things pretty, for adding illustrations to the words you can write, for creating images to match descriptions… But there will always be a need for art that communicates emotion, and that is a need that AI art cannot fulfil on its own.

Panopticocon t1_j1yel58 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 8:48 AM

AI art makers also try to communicate emotions. Only the process to do so (prompt iterating) is different from 100% self made art. Artists where traditionally seen as some sort of ultra profound individuals because they had the skills to express their thoughts into the physical realm. While others could not. Now everyone can do it. There will probably still be some respect for the dedication of the artist, but they wont be on the same piedestal for it anymore.

thetwitchy1 OP t1_j1wy60p wrote on December 28, 2022 at 12:34 AM

Have you ever experienced the maker culture? People learning to forge steel in their backyards, making tools and trinkets and toys, by hand and with techniques requiring years of practice, for no reason other than to say they can. Because sometimes the act of making a thing is what is worth doing, no matter the value of the thing you make.

cuposun t1_j1y8qbg wrote on December 28, 2022 at 7:29 AM

I will still write songs even when there is an AI band next year that’s better than Radiohead or whatever. Radiohead was already way better than my music. I write songs because they are inside of me. AI can’t take that away.