aiislove
4d ago
This all goes back to my hobby horse of arrogance and how bad it is. You alone have to be the scarce valuable thing and now there's someone else so you are sad? Oh my god. If cats evolved to suddenly be amazing artists I'd be so stoked to see the cat art. Computers evolved to be amazing artists so I want to see the computer art. If cats evolved to be amazing at math I'd want to see the cat math. Computers are good at math so now I want to see the computer math. There is no other voice or force in western society telling people to stop being so arrogant but it would solve so many problems if we had this as a cultural idea to even a tiny degree.
Artists are probably feeling the same way.
Did you read my comment you replied to I am an artist and not feeling a big hit to my self esteem if anything I am excited to have new tools available to express things that were completely out of my reach in the past.
aiislove
4d ago
Doomer responses to this is just so sad. I'm an artist and designer and with every improvement of ai art/creativity I welcome it as augmenting possibilities of creativity rather than thinking my own creativity is worthless. Math people should be so happy they have new knowledge of math opening up to them and excited about the new answers rather than sad that a computer did it better than them. Surely there are now tons of new applications of knowledge and information from the new findings they can work from, I don't understand why they'd be upset about it. I'm sure it's very much like in art where most of the good artists are curious about the new AI tools while the bad ones worry.
You could say that about photography as well, that the humans controlling cameras are a transitional stage until the cameras get so good that they don't need people. Yet it's been over a century, there's uncountable hours of photography being captured at all times all over the planet all the time and yet almost none of it is interesting outside of like the nature wildlife automated photography that some people like to look at. I could probably find beauty in automated traffic cameras if I felt like it but I'm in the minority and most people would rather see a human produced and curated series of photographs than a randomly generated or algorithmically curated series of photographs
Again I am an artist and designer and no one is telling me I'll have to flip burgers right now, I can think of 50 other more creative tasks I could monetize before I'm going to sweep a floor. lol. Besides that the bottle neck in the economics of art has never been supply side but rather demand side and AI has NO answer for the demand problem. I could already produce thousands of t-shirt designs a day if I wanted ten years ago, the technology was already there, but the demand for this variety of t-shirts does not exist.
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