Heres me making a blank post because OpenAI mods REFUSE to delete them themselves. Delted post. deleted post.
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Given my Copilot, I think what we’re going to see is the value of reading walls of text being reduced, when they could be cranked out in a minute by what turns out to be a vapid AI…
A plausible word sequence maker made chatty by incorporation of a million simulated chats gives us a facade of intelligence that breaks down pretty quickly.
What if musicians have access to studio-quality digital audio workstations, cameras capable of filming in 4k, and an editing bay in their basement for fractions of the price of decades past?
Then all the VFX artists and videographers and stage hands say “why do we need this industry acting as a gatekeeper to our creativity now?”
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I think to add to _j’s point, these systems might make it easier for everyone to do stuff, but I’m still not sold that it will actually help everyone do stuff well. AI is more like overclocking your own intelligence. If you had a bad idea before AI, AI isn’t going to be able to turn it into a good idea.
Remember: Garbage in, garbage out.
People also want IP rights, and companies need IP rights to certain works, so it’s not like everyone is suddenly going to stop caring about that. People are going to pay what they need to pay so they can have the rights to monetize their own work or brand.
Let’s also not forget the achievements of WGA and SAG-AFTRA right now. Doomers are quick to cite these kinds of potential IP issues yet scoff at what’s actually been done about it. If we are to have this kind of public discourse, we can’t brush off the legal rulings and union efforts as meaningless, because they’re not, and there’s no evidence suggesting they won’t suddenly be so in the future.
True art has no guardrails. A paintbrush doesn’t tell me “no”. AI might make stuff, but I haven’t seen work that’s truly impactful yet. Last time I made some art pieces to put up for sale, one of my favorites was a painting I did of Zelenskyy smacking Putin in the same angle that Will Smith smacked Chris Rock. An AI will most likely not let me make that, unless I take the time to download, set up, and handle all this crap for an uncensored model. Even then, there’s no guarantee it’d come out the way I want, or how much editing work I’d have to do to make it look the way I want after it’s generated.
Which, speaking of, brings me to my final point: Until it’s easier and faster to get exactly what I envision in my head through prompting and generative AI, gen AI is not an alternative to the main tool, like a brush, or a pen, or camera. It might help make some tasks easier, but it’s not a replacement. No matter how detailed or intricate my prompting can be, censored or not, everything it comes up with is just slightly off from what I actually wanted. Also, if you look closely at most of the works produced by AI, it makes a bunch of these optical illusions almost, where something looks correct, but when you squint, you realize the perspective is distorted and inaccurate. Therefore, why am I gonna spend all this prompting something that I know isn’t gonna turn out how I want, when I could just spend the same amount of time, likely less, just doing it myself?
It might lessen the barrier to creativity, and it might be a handy tool in speeding up tedious work, but it’s not going to allow an inexperienced artist to outperform a genuine artist. Hell, half the time, it’s not even allowed to produce the kind of artwork that has propelled art for centuries (ahem nudity).
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