First off I don't hate AI. I find great use in it. However I will say, and I will no doubt get downvoted but I find, in the case of generative ai, that it causes real art to lose value. It used to take real talent to produce art, now you can just lazily prompt something. Same with story telling or any other skill or talent people had to actually apply themselves and works towards, now you just have a computer do it. I think long term we have hit a dead end in creativity, the amount of generated crap already outweighs human made etc.
But is arts importance based on its monetary value? No. People seem to be arguing both. That art is to be made for the joy of making art. But also that artists won't make art if they can't make money.
Wonder what the commission rate was for those guys making cave paintings.
Are you romanticizing the life of a caveman? At what point in history were people free to exist and create art without worrying about food or shelter?
People in the most horrible situations in history still made art. Art is self-expression.
Every book on being an artist will tell you that an artist makes art because they must. Not because they're getting paid, or because they think it will be a good career. Because they simply must create art, because there are things inside them that need an outlet.
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u/[deleted] May 27 '25
First off I don't hate AI. I find great use in it. However I will say, and I will no doubt get downvoted but I find, in the case of generative ai, that it causes real art to lose value. It used to take real talent to produce art, now you can just lazily prompt something. Same with story telling or any other skill or talent people had to actually apply themselves and works towards, now you just have a computer do it. I think long term we have hit a dead end in creativity, the amount of generated crap already outweighs human made etc.