As an artist, I think it is a net negative for us. Disregarding the copyright issue, I think it’s also consolidating power into large corporations, going to kill learning fundamental skills (rip next generation of artists), and turn the profession into a low skill minimum wage job. Artists that spent years learning and perfecting their skills will be worth nothing and I think it’s a pretty depressing future for us. Anways thoughts?
It’s interesting, but would I personally have a use for it artistically at this point? No. Art is this funny thing that is at the same time insanely overvalued and so underappreciated. I feel most people don’t appreciate art in the detail of the work. They just want something aesthetic to plaster their profiles with.
But at the same time it has become something only elites with shit taste can break into as a career opportunity.
I hate the art scene and I don’t see anything that revolutionary or exceptionally cool ab AI art beyond saving some time for creators. It does have potential to make artists make a prolific amount of work instead of having apprentice workshops do it all the art for them. But depending on the art, it’s not really a good thing.
I think you are mainly thinking about high art, which I also hate (money laundering scheme). I was thinking more about the commercial artists which create all the popular media we see and consume (think artstation artists, which was the inspiration of this post).
Yeah, I agree. I just know cappies will always use any tech to its most cynical and exploitative.