I don’t remember where I read it, but this all boils down to the one quote:
“AI should be used by creative people to remove tedium. It shouldn’t be used by tedious people to remove creativity”
AI is like a microwave. It’s always quick and easy, but if you try to cook a steak dinner with it, it’s going to be shit. However, sometimes all you need to do is reheat last night’s pasta.
there’s lots of things that should be, but aren’t and i can’t think of a single one that we’re not inflicting upon ourselves out of willful ignorance.
Completely unrelated:
Reheat food the same way you cooked it. Put the pasta in a nonstick skillet on the stove and bring up to temp that way, it’ll be 10x better and taste much closer to fresh.
To make this relevant: AI is an effective tool if all you want is quick and easy. But if you want it to be good, you’ll have to expend some effort yourself.
I get where the artist is coming from and I largely agree. However when he says that consumers don’t like consuming AI art, I think he’s biased by being surrounded by consumers who like his art.
The average Joe does not care if it’s AI art. People with good taste generally do care, but most people have terrible taste. That is why AI art is taking the world by storm - it’s good enough to get mass appeal even though it’s objectively worse than a real artist.
I put AI art with memes. Specifically the memes that are text over an image.
They are a way for someone who has an idea to share, but not the means to create it. It’s just a little joke, and if we laugh, we appreciate it for what it is, a good idea.
Agreed. AI slop is literally everywhere. It has ultra saturated the internet more than I think any of us are even really aware of. The fact that there are countless AI generated articles, images, videos, songs, etc that are getting millions and millions of human engagement says all we need to know.
After playing Cyberpunk 2077 a few years ago and now witnessing the rise of hyper AI slopdom, I genuinely believe we’ll hit a point where we have to count the current Internet as a lost cause and create a new one that’s fully firewalled from the old one. Bots will only get smarter, more efficient, and more numerous as the AI era marches onwards. It’s catapulting us further and further into a post-truth society, causing immeasurable damage. With the way the Internet is structured and engineered, there’s no effective way of battling it. The current Internet belongs to AI/bots, and countless people are completely fine with it and/or happily ignorant of it.
Objectively? X doubt