I like the rest of the world have been playing with all the various Ai art generators, and I find the whole thing curious and frightening. a person can which a sentence recreate Rembrandt’s style for our consumption in minutes. and it kind of scares me. The process of art is being changed to basically become let’s get really good at describing things.
I am an amateur artist. I draw and paint for the love of it. but I watch the art world. and I wonder about art being so devalued. artists are expected to give their art and their process for free on sites like Instagram, and I do that. I have received messages asking me to draw them for free.
now we are in a world where we can get art for almost nothing. art that is generated through the hard work of millions of image creators going back through the history of the internet and beyond. Would that be what the creators wanted? where is their attribution? the models for these are gigabytes in size. gigabytes of images labelled and processed by labour that I don’t even know if was ethical. how do we quantify that?
and where do we go from here? I ‘v created images on mid-journey beyond anything i could create. as an actual artist. not without years of training.
I have always been both interested in and wary of ai. In part for its potential. It is coming for us all. Self-driving cars, and automated factories humans are making ourselves redundant. Which may not be a totally bad thing. I read about an that can recognize cancer in an X-ray better than any trained radiologist (sorry radiologists) Driverless cars will be safer than anything with a human behind the wheel. I just wonder where we will fit in.
I have a philosophy in work where I try to build tools, so I have to do as little admin as possible. I have at times coded myself out of a job; we as a species doing that, but we need somewhere to go.
I have read Rutger Bergman’s utopia for realists and like the idea of universal basic income because I genuinely think there will be a point where it is necessary to keep the world alive. He paints a pretty picture of us paid enough not to have poverty and live in a world where we all go into caring professions like nursing homes, education … the arts?
Oh, wait …
Art is a text prompt away. And how long before we get moving images and deep fakes that make nothing real? Rutger makes the case for optimism in both utopia for realists and human kind. I just find it hard to believe when humans tend to fail upwards as a society. so much of our technology is based on getting an advantage in war.
We have people staving while men build their own penis rockets to space. And I doubt they would want to take us with them when the recourses they mine from the earth are gone.
But I have to hope there will be something in art and music that the human element can prevail. That we can find a way to live beside the ai that is coming. I would love to see a fairer world where art is valued because we are all artists and carers .
I don’t know I wrote this trying to think through my own anxieties around the future and technology. It’s just another thing on the list right between nuclear war and climate change.
anyway here’s to my little freakout as I try and reason about it. maybe I should get my finger out and really study ai.
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I like the rest of the world have been playing with all the various Ai art generators, and I find the whole thing curious and frightening. a person can which a sentence recreate Rembrandt’s style for our consumption in minutes. and it kind of scares me. The process of art is being changed to basically become let’s get really good at describing things.
I am an amateur artist. I draw and paint for the love of it. but I watch the art world. and I wonder about art being so devalued. artists are expected to give their art and their process for free on sites like Instagram, and I do that. I have received messages asking me to draw them for free.
now we are in a world where we can get art for almost nothing. art that is generated through the hard work of millions of image creators going back through the history of the internet and beyond. Would that be what the creators wanted? where is their attribution? the models for these are gigabytes in size. gigabytes of images labelled and processed by labour that I don’t even know if was ethical. how do we quantify that?
and where do we go from here? I ‘v created images on mid-journey beyond anything i could create. as an actual artist. not without years of training.
I have always been both interested in and wary of ai. In part for its potential. It is coming for us all. Self-driving cars, and automated factories humans are making ourselves redundant. Which may not be a totally bad thing. I read about an that can recognize cancer in an X-ray better than any trained radiologist (sorry radiologists) Driverless cars will be safer than anything with a human behind the wheel. I just wonder where we will fit in.
I have a philosophy in work where I try to build tools, so I have to do as little admin as possible. I have at times coded myself out of a job; we as a species doing that, but we need somewhere to go.
I have read Rutger Bergman’s utopia for realists and like the idea of universal basic income because I genuinely think there will be a point where it is necessary to keep the world alive. He paints a pretty picture of us paid enough not to have poverty and live in a world where we all go into caring professions like nursing homes, education … the arts?
Oh, wait …
Art is a text prompt away. And how long before we get moving images and deep fakes that make nothing real? Rutger makes the case for optimism in both utopia for realists and human kind. I just find it hard to believe when humans tend to fail upwards as a society. so much of our technology is based on getting an advantage in war.
We have people staving while men build their own penis rockets to space. And I doubt they would want to take us with them when the recourses they mine from the earth are gone.
But I have to hope there will be something in art and music that the human element can prevail. That we can find a way to live beside the ai that is coming. I would love to see a fairer world where art is valued because we are all artists and carers .
I don’t know I wrote this trying to think through my own anxieties around the future and technology. It’s just another thing on the list right between nuclear war and climate change.
anyway here’s to my little freakout as I try and reason about it. maybe I should get my finger out and really study ai.
and if you too want to be an artist all the images here were generated by midjourney https://www.midjourney.com/home/
it only takes a prompt