RE: My opinion about AI art and a thought on society.
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This is a very insightful post. Thank you. Personally, AI doesn't bother me, because whatever artisitic endeavours I'm undertaking, I'm doing it for me and not for the world. Not for monetary gain, and not for the admiration of my peers. So I'm at peace with myself, because I know what it took to accomplish whatever I have pursued.
prevailing intellectual laziness
This is a major problem, especially since the lazy people then proceed to want credit / status / money / influence for their technology-dependent underachievements - and in that sense it bugs the sh.t out of me! It goes against everything I consider fair and just. Like every human endeavour, art requires the learning of craft. AI and other smart tools make it possible to skip the arduous task of acquiring the craft and go straight to the result. You want me to admire that? I don't think so!
Consider this: If the world ends tomorrow and all the plugs are pulled, you and I gather at a campfire. We find some flat rocks, pick up a few pieces of charcoal, and we will still create nice art. Why? How? Because we bothered to learn the craft required.
I'm also a hobby musician, and I love my Yamaha digital piano! I have played (and learned) for many years. My DP has arranger functions, and I can create a reasonable facsimile of a jazz big band performance with only two hands. However, take the fancy digital tool away, give me a pocket knife and a stick of pussy willow, and I will make a flute to create more beautiful music than the lazy SOB who passes for a star DJ. (Yeah, that bugs me, too: Non-musician DJs who are celebrated for mixing up real musicians' audio loops.)
So, yeah, all this AI stuff is well and good, as long as it's done for fun or to speed up industrial processes. Sell it off as a personal accomplishment for whatever gain, and I have nothing but contempt for you.
Yes you totally right. It would be nice if people thought like you, and stop to search acknowledgement for itself without efforts. It makes me think about tiktok "stars" and a lot of young people that just want to be famous, for being famous, but without doing nothing. It is so unhealty !
Yes, like you said, real artists can makes art
as much with simple equipment as with the most sophisticated because they are passionnate by art and by the feeling when doing that.
Thanks for your comment, have a nice day :)