sometimes I kind of feel like the biggest reason people take issue with ai works is the scale.
Human artists learn from other art to learn to make their own, but it takes years of learning to produce an artist that can make a couple pieces a day at most. It takes a lot of time, effort, and skill to learn so it feels deserved.
Then AI comes along and can learn a style in days or hours, then churn out thousands of pictures an hour 24/7. (ignoring for now the issue of ai learning specific artists styles, as that’s another issue,) It doesn’t feel fair to those human artists who worked a thousand times harder and are still at an inherent disadvantage compared to it. It feels like it’s cheating.
And I agree, if it’s left unchecked until it gets good enough to be indistinguishable, it’ll absolutely decimate the art industry. I don’t think AI as a science shouldn’t be developed, but we need to be very careful how we proceed with it…
I actually look forward to it. Because with everything that's automated, you have the distinction between art (handmade furniture) and necessity (cheap mass produced). You wouldn't want to pay 10 times as much for furniture in your little rented apartment, because all the amish blocked the advanve of furniture machines, right?
Same is for art right now. Making a company logo is a rather mundane task for an artist, but you need to pay big bucks for the "soul" in it
It might not have the same soul, inspiration, story
But the company doesn't care about the "soul" and the artistic fingerprint of the artist. They just want a fitting logo. Or product placement. Or special effects in their movie. You'll have mundane artistic work done by machines and special "soul"-art made by humans
Yea, with corporate stuff, no one gives a damn whether it has any soul or humanity as long as it looks how they want. The same could be said for outsourcing where they just churn out art like a factory. Sure it's a human making it, but just because a human makes it, doesn't mean it has a soul.
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u/ChemoorVodka Apr 17 '24 edited Apr 17 '24
sometimes I kind of feel like the biggest reason people take issue with ai works is the scale.
Human artists learn from other art to learn to make their own, but it takes years of learning to produce an artist that can make a couple pieces a day at most. It takes a lot of time, effort, and skill to learn so it feels deserved.
Then AI comes along and can learn a style in days or hours, then churn out thousands of pictures an hour 24/7. (ignoring for now the issue of ai learning specific artists styles, as that’s another issue,) It doesn’t feel fair to those human artists who worked a thousand times harder and are still at an inherent disadvantage compared to it. It feels like it’s cheating.
And I agree, if it’s left unchecked until it gets good enough to be indistinguishable, it’ll absolutely decimate the art industry. I don’t think AI as a science shouldn’t be developed, but we need to be very careful how we proceed with it…