I see a lot of parallels with the early internet, on paper something that sounded like a net positive for humanity but in reality turned out to be overall a negative.
It’d be great if they designed a version that helps streamline the process of creating art, instead of trying to replace it entirely. I don’t oppose it because I’m a “luddite” or whatever, but because it causes a specific issue of flooding markets with garbage.
A good parallel is craft fairs and markets that allow MLM products in them. Not things people actually created, but just purchased and try to resell as part of a larger pyramid scheme. Once word gets out that the market is accepting of them, the MLM huns fill up as many booths as they can, all offering identical products to each other and chasing out the people who actually produce proper crafts. And the public could easily get what the MLM huns are selling for cheaper by just signing up to the MLM themselves, so it just chases people away (they also tend to disregard the “rules” or “social contract” of these sorts of events and tend to be much more aggressive and harassing marketers than regular craft makers) so the craft’s fair has no one wanting to go anymore, because no one wants to wade through garbage hoping to maybe find something decent at the end, so the craft fair dies and the MLM huns will just look for the next place to “ruin” even though they aren’t doing it deliberately, they just want the prestige of feeling like they’re running “their own business” and have “their own products” but refuse to adhere to the actual responsibilities of that. They want all the prestige and success of selling crafts, without any of the effort or responsibility of creating them.
I’ve seen the exact same thing happen in online art communities that allow AI art. They get flooded with low effort slop, because the AI artists are told that “quantity is good for the algorithm” so they produce as much as they can, flooding out real artists, and in turn, chasing away anyone who doesn’t want to stare at AI slop all day, and they don’t even make the money they were hoping from all this, as the only people interested in their “creations” are fellow AI guys, who will just use AI themselves instead of paying someone to do it. So real artists get chased out, real art fans get chased out, and while technically the website has more traffic than ever because of all the AI stuff being created and uploaded, at some point the bubble will burst, once these guys realise that this isn’t the get rich quick scheme they were hoping for, and will leave the online community dead and empty, because like the MLM huns, they want the prestige and “success” of being an artist, without the effort or responsibility.
I was ready to declare AI an ontological enemy to all humanity until I discovered this YouTube channel.
yeah you can tell when someone with actual artistic skills or comedy chops uses AI to do something that would typically be impossible/unaffordable/require a team they can’t put together
still it’s inherently just a mega plagiarism machine but without capitalism corrupting it i think this tech could have a niche.
but yeah butlerian jihad and all if i am called up for it
Yeah there’s a ai sasquatch video series that’s pretty funny, like there’s good slop but the problem is we’re killing ourselves making it :/
Yeah, I thought it was cool to start with. But of course it’s being used by the worst people alive to just completely devalue art.
art has as much value as it ever did and no AI bro is ever gonna change that
What I mean is that not only are they are going to use it to destroy careers, they are going to flood the internet with “content”. Spotify is already recommending and autoplaying AI generated music trained to mimic real artists.
