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We can, protect artists
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this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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AI is freeing art in the same way technology did music. It's putting creative tools in the hands of more and more people that don't need years/decades of skill to become proficient in.
50 years ago, you'd need several talented musicians, an array of expensive instruments and recording equipment to make a song. Now it takes one person and a computer. "Real" musicians turned their nose up at digital music when it first came out, but that's because they were afraid of the truth: while this new technology might not be as good as the top .01% of musicians, most musicians don't fall into that category and the rest of the world sees the new way as faster, easier, and frankly better.
AI art is the same way. While it may not be better than the absolute best artists in the world, it's better than 99.9% of them. The common person can now create detailed depictions of art in seconds with a few prompts and keywords. There's no going back from this, and public opinion is not going to reject it. It's too convenient, too easy, too beneficial of a tool.
Art is dead, long live Art.
you need to look at better art
I mean if you equate "art == content", then sure, all those billions in VC money and poorly paid data entry workers have now enabled a machine that for a monthly fee will provide you with a hero image on your Medium blog. The market for dreck like that is limited, though.
You got any evidence for that? What do you even mean by "digital music?" That's not a category I think musicians recognize. You may he confusing digital with electric which was not exactly as you're describing it.
it's like 2021, the early days of the internet
Ah yes, "real" musicians turned their nose up at digital music.
Now let me tell you about how making music on a computer doesn't involve years of practice to become proficient. Using a digital audio workstation is basically the same as typing "club banger in the style of Avicii, billboard hot 100, high quality, big boobs, crisp production, lots of bass, danceable" in a prompt box.
@Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems already pointed this out, but it’s kind of fucking amazing how obvious it is that this trash sounded smart to you when you wrote it, but in the same post you’ve made a bunch of mistakes that give away you don’t even have the vaguest idea of what art is or how it’s made
the year is 2034. i am robbing a bank to pay the openAI licencing fee so i can pursue my dream of being a writer.
“Democratizing art!!!” really had me chuckling for a second, but only a second. The bit was already used up by the coiners
yeah man i love to look at detailed depictions of art
also sorry i need to get this out
no. you can make up a song and you can sing it and it doesn't cost anything. i've done it since i was a child and humanity has done it since before history began. fuck you.
thanks for your input, we'll just assume this comment whenever you next have an urge to post here
fucking hell I looked at their post history. it’s only a 5 day old account but they’ve been busy posting bad AI takes almost exclusively, including comparing the dudesly George Carlin thing with a drag show