I wish I could believe what your post offers, but alas, as a board member of one of the top illustration societies in the US, I’ve seen how AI has negatively impacted the livelihoods of illustrators and artists, all for the sake of some corporation chasing down the most profit for the least amount of money paid to the fewest amount of workers.
As for the quality of works made by AI, it pales in comparison to that made by a skilled artist who has years of training, and decades of life experience, behind their hand. AI may show the pretty edifice of an image, but a true human creation goes beyond the surface. No prompt writer will ever attain that, nor will their work show the unique knowledge accumulated from traveling on a life path that instilled an artist's skills, emotions, or motivations.
There’s a great book that takes a deep dive into the shallow thinking of AI and how the mindset of corporate greed is destroying creativity. It’s called “The Death of the Artist - How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.” As depressing as the book is in laying out the current state of the creative arts, it still provides a useful wake up call to people in terms of how technology isn’t always a good thing for creativity, especially when it’s misapplied so that some tech bro can reap huge rewards from the efforts of struggling artists. Ironically, there is little difference between those who would promote and profit from AI and the Robber Barons of the 19th century who exploited people for ungodly profits. The only difference now is that it’s easier to fool people into using a shady, copyright violating technology to build one’s wealth.
I wish I could believe what your post offers, but alas, as a board member of one of the top illustration societies in the US, I’ve seen how AI has negatively impacted the livelihoods of illustrators and artists, all for the sake of some corporation chasing down the most profit for the least amount of money paid to the fewest amount of workers.
As for the quality of works made by AI, it pales in comparison to that made by a skilled artist who has years of training, and decades of life experience, behind their hand. AI may show the pretty edifice of an image, but a true human creation goes beyond the surface. No prompt writer will ever attain that, nor will their work show the unique knowledge accumulated from traveling on a life path that instilled an artist's skills, emotions, or motivations.
There’s a great book that takes a deep dive into the shallow thinking of AI and how the mindset of corporate greed is destroying creativity. It’s called “The Death of the Artist - How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech.” As depressing as the book is in laying out the current state of the creative arts, it still provides a useful wake up call to people in terms of how technology isn’t always a good thing for creativity, especially when it’s misapplied so that some tech bro can reap huge rewards from the efforts of struggling artists. Ironically, there is little difference between those who would promote and profit from AI and the Robber Barons of the 19th century who exploited people for ungodly profits. The only difference now is that it’s easier to fool people into using a shady, copyright violating technology to build one’s wealth.
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