Comment by RataNova
1 day ago
Totally agree that what AI is doing right now feels more like the GarageBand/iMovie moment than the iPhone moment. It's democratizing creativity, not necessarily creating billion-dollar companies. And honestly, that's still a big deal
Yes, maybe what people create with it will be more basic. But is 'good enough' good enough? Will people pay for apps they can create on their own time for free using AI? There will be a huge disruption to the app marketplace unless apps are so much better than an AI could create it's worth the money. So short Apple? :) On the other hand, many, many more people will be creating apps and charging very little for them (because if it's not free or less than the value of my time, I'm building it on my own). This makes things better for everyone, and there'll still be a market for apps. So buy Apple? :)
The difference is you still need to express creativity in your use of GarageBand and iMovie. There is nothing creative about typing "give me a picture of x doing y" into a form field.
Also, "democratizing"? Please. We're just entrenching more power into the small handful of companies who have been able to raise and set fire to unfathomable amounts of capital. Many of these tools may be free or cheap to use today, but there is nothing for the commons here.
The thing is... Elbow grease makes the difference.
If you're just generating images using AI, you only get 80% there. You need at least to be able to touch up those images to get something outstanding.
Plus, is getting 1 billion bytes of randomness/entropy from your 1 thousand bytes of text input really <your> work?
Pollock can get uncountable bytes of entropy from a skilful swing of a bucket.
Most art isn't like that. I would argue most people dislike that kind of art.
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It is apposite that in a lot of modern art, the concept and provenance are valued more than the execution.
Plus, is getting 1 billion bytes of randomness/entropy from your 1 thousand bytes of text input really <your> work?
I think what AI has made and will make many more people realise is that everything is a derivative work. You still had to prompt the AI with your idea, to get it to assemble the result from the countless others' works it was trained on (and perhaps in the future, "your" work will then be used by others, via the AI, to create "their" work.)
For now. Eventually it will get you 100% of the way there and we'll have the tooling for it as well.