03-28-2025, 08:17 PM
I'm going to double-post to make a point -- this all sounds rather dystopian. And yes, it is, somewhat. Where is "art"? Where is the unique human element?
Well, fear not. Humans have a long history of replacing anything that can be replaced with technology. Art evolves and moves on. Much of the hoo-hah hating against AI seems to be a form of sour grapes. Writers, actors, illustrators bemoaning the impending death of the way they've expressed their creativity.
But, western civilization has been on that trajectory for a while now, hasn't it? Where is the new art for the ages? It all seems like soulless crap, frankly. But! The art is there, you'll see it sometimes, if you look. It's just not where you would expect. It growing and changing, too, despite our cultural complacency, inertia, and materialism.
I really pissed off the owner of an advertising firm a few months ago. He was complaining about AI art, how it was getting mixed in with work product, making things tougher for their business and artists to get the recognition for creativity they deserve. I laughed when he called their employees "artists", and said "where's the art?" They really should be called "content-creators". If it can be replaced with a machine, acceptably, is it really art any more? Or is that just ego? He didn't like that one bit. I still think I'm right. Now, there will always be new modes of art in influencing people and playing on their emotions and aesthetic proclivities, but it seems like humanity is going to up its game in that regard. Whether we "like" it or not.
And besides, our masters will always thirst for novelty. The thought of humanity being reduced to identical automatons is a nightmare for them, too. What fun is to be had when there is no world left to conquer? They will ensure we still retain the capacity for entertainment. Even a pure AI would want that.
Well, fear not. Humans have a long history of replacing anything that can be replaced with technology. Art evolves and moves on. Much of the hoo-hah hating against AI seems to be a form of sour grapes. Writers, actors, illustrators bemoaning the impending death of the way they've expressed their creativity.
But, western civilization has been on that trajectory for a while now, hasn't it? Where is the new art for the ages? It all seems like soulless crap, frankly. But! The art is there, you'll see it sometimes, if you look. It's just not where you would expect. It growing and changing, too, despite our cultural complacency, inertia, and materialism.
I really pissed off the owner of an advertising firm a few months ago. He was complaining about AI art, how it was getting mixed in with work product, making things tougher for their business and artists to get the recognition for creativity they deserve. I laughed when he called their employees "artists", and said "where's the art?" They really should be called "content-creators". If it can be replaced with a machine, acceptably, is it really art any more? Or is that just ego? He didn't like that one bit. I still think I'm right. Now, there will always be new modes of art in influencing people and playing on their emotions and aesthetic proclivities, but it seems like humanity is going to up its game in that regard. Whether we "like" it or not.
And besides, our masters will always thirst for novelty. The thought of humanity being reduced to identical automatons is a nightmare for them, too. What fun is to be had when there is no world left to conquer? They will ensure we still retain the capacity for entertainment. Even a pure AI would want that.
