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I want to ask you about creativity and art. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I look at these works of art created by artificial intelligence and I think: yes, it's beautiful, yes, it's good, but... What's the point? Where's the story, where's the work, if everything is so simple, then what's the point? It's no better than a store where you come and buy, although no, you come, take everything you need for free and leave. I don't see any value in it, it's just boring.

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[–] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I'm an artist. I don't like AI art, I don't use Ai in any capacity. Could the tech.be used by the right hands to create a legitimate work of art? Sure . an incredibly select few(Not in a "generate this image" type of way, but I can see how one could make an argument for something conceptual and interesting done with the tech)

But the wider picture is that it will steal work from most of the skilled artist workforce, we are not able to compete whith the scale of ai output; and not everyone is suited for the independent artist life, because it's fucking hard. Also the visual literacy of the average person will go further down the drain, and It's already very poor, AI will kill a lot of future potential artists.. this is not even touching the effects this technology has in other areas of our lives.

Ai exists to make the average person more stupid, more reliant in the corpos, more isolated in their own bubble. It makes me despair, but also fuels me to keep doing art, even if it is only for myself. I will not let them take the only thing I'm good at away from me.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm also an artist and I can see some use for AI, but I don't use it to make any actual art. I use it to bolster up my weaker areas, which is basically all the admin stuff - marketing plans, budgets, setting prices, all the paperwork crap essentially. Which then frees me up to spend more time doing actual creative things.

[–] GrantUsEyes@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

That's a good use for it.

[–] locuester@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Cool I’m the reverse. I do admin shit, and generate the art. Haha

[–] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Well, I think writers will be the next ones to have problems. Although no, they are already slowly starting to have problems.