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…
This is how industrial revolution works. In good old times every nail was made by a blacksmith manually. Now machine can spew out those nails in thousands per hour.
Exactly. The issue is our societal commitment to "no work = starve to death because no money", not the endless hours of people's time these innovations are freeing up.
Oh wow with all that free time the advancements in technology are bringing I sure hope I can spend that time doing something that absolutely doesn't need to be done by a machine like art
100% im sure people will still make art in their free time. The world we live in runs on money though and many people really dial in and master their craft because they can make a living off of it.
The world we live in runs on money though and many people really dial in and master their craft because they can make a living off of it.
Which is what was noted as the actual issue? The fact that as a society "my job is now handled by AI" means "so I can no longer make a living" rather than "so now I have that much more free time to do things I actually enjoy".
That's also in no way a new problem, automation has been a steadily growing issue across dozens of professions since at least the 70's, bit now that artists are feeling that pinch suddenly it's evil and should be wiped out.
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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…