As an artist, I think it is a net negative for us. Disregarding the copyright issue, I think it’s also consolidating power into large corporations, going to kill learning fundamental skills (rip next generation of artists), and turn the profession into a low skill minimum wage job. Artists that spent years learning and perfecting their skills will be worth nothing and I think it’s a pretty depressing future for us. Anways thoughts?
Because AI completely bypasses the entire creative process. It just does it for you by recycling ideas from other people that have already done the work. The thing that annoys me is that anybody can do anything or be anything they want if they put in the work. I’m married to an artist and she had devoted ALL of her free time to getting better since she was a kid, and between then and now she has worked a ton of shit jobs (including being a home health aide) to working in a grocery store. She STILL practices every single day even though she has a disability with carpal tunnel in her wrist from pulling pallets at her shit grocery store job.
AI isn’t doing anything to levelize the playing field in art. It’s just doing the work for somebody and taking away everything that makes doing something worthwhile.
It’s one thing to have a creative tool that helps with the process rather than something that bypasses the work entirely. At that point it isn’t art anymore - there’s a reason it’s called AI - it is artificial.
You can’t compare AI to a using a sewing machine for a creative project rather than handstiching. Because even if you use a sewing machine, you are still putting in that work on your hobby and not letting a computer do that work for you.
Sure, it’s great to know fundamentals of any artform but even digital artists use a lot of tools in their process.
Anybody claiming that AI is just a tool is not an artist.
As a person trying to do art professionally, I can relate to your wife’s story. Thank you for your input.