Comment by college_physics
3 years ago
Only society can make artists redundant. If people want to get their "art" by digitally rehashing what real artists did in the past then we don't need artists.
How exactly things will play out is not clear: photography did not eliminate painting. Algorithms will not eliminate more "manual" creative work. Some new genres might emerge.
Ultimately what is a more important problem is that the commercialization of artistic production was always challenging. When you can create infinite replicas with semi-random variations it only makes the problem worse.
Exactly. Art as an economic industry may die out. As a career, it may be reduced to a much smaller scope. But we'll always be able to express ourselves artistically - maybe even more so if AI frees up more time in which to do so.
...or enjoy making art with other people to use in our commercial endeavors ?
Like, it might actually be fun to work with creatives to make art. It's one of the areas of my work I actually really enjoy. I can't imagine prompting DALL-E to be as fun and enjoyable, nor would it be "creative".
No, definitely not. It's a sad fact that many people have to do what most of us would consider 'boring' work in our day-to-day lives. Prompting DALL-E may not be 'as creative' as not using it, in the same way that using Photoshop tools might not be 'as creative' as painting with a brush, but that doesn't invalidate either process.
Commercialization of anything and everything is the real capital P Problem that needs solving, in the grand scheme of things.
While people are (to varying degrees) generous, its hard to build everything on generosity and recirocity. On the other hand once you start bean counting and transactionaling everything and in particular not even accept different types of beans, out entire existence becomes the one-dimensional, money driven disaster it has become.
Many artists are really scared by what these apparently uncontrollable interests are unleashing. Who can blame them.
Some people here seem to worship "progress" as a new-age god, so they'd probably be chiding. Unfortunately for that crowd, moving fast and breaking things works well for them up until they break too many things, at which point everything breaks. It wouldn't surprise me if the story of the next few decades is the age of hubris finally falling flat.