1 Year of Service
So my completely unsolicited take on the AI debate, It makes art much more accessible for the vast majority of folks. Now most people can type a description and get a passable image, functional code, or a piece of literature. Accessibility means we will get more of these thing's, both good and bad. I imagine in the early days of posting hand drawn art, there was, and still is, a great number of individuals that never experience critique until what they presented as what they thought was a Monalisa that was actually just a stick figure. I imagine/hope that our current AI ecosystem is the early days of lots of folks learning that their AI artwork is in fact stick figures and will gradually drop in volume, leaving us with two district sub groups.
The first sub group, is the ones that will never learn what art is and that they will submit a description and post 10 carbon copies of the first thing the processor shoots out, ignore all valid criticism and just keep chugging along. I pray this group is small, so help me I pray.
The second sub group, is a group that would not normally have skills in the medium that AI now makes accessible to them, but are able to prompt craft and willing to put the time into refining the results and learning the art involved with what they are creating (I mean in the image world we have been doing this with photo shop forever and we consider it art still). This group is definitely one I feel it is worth fostering, as this will provide great works that would not otherwise have existed, that while not skilled in the same way we think the medium should be skilled, it was still something someone spent a great amount of effort and time creating using a different set of skills and mastery.
The first sub group, is the ones that will never learn what art is and that they will submit a description and post 10 carbon copies of the first thing the processor shoots out, ignore all valid criticism and just keep chugging along. I pray this group is small, so help me I pray.
The second sub group, is a group that would not normally have skills in the medium that AI now makes accessible to them, but are able to prompt craft and willing to put the time into refining the results and learning the art involved with what they are creating (I mean in the image world we have been doing this with photo shop forever and we consider it art still). This group is definitely one I feel it is worth fostering, as this will provide great works that would not otherwise have existed, that while not skilled in the same way we think the medium should be skilled, it was still something someone spent a great amount of effort and time creating using a different set of skills and mastery.