#I’m just sayin it’s not looking too good for us creatives outchea

[hypaalicious]

One thing I will say about the A.I. art ish is that it glaringly shows how the general public doesn’t have an eye trained for art.

This is important to note because the general public is who A.I. is catered to and will give it legitimacy through ignorance.

I’ve seen regular people fawn over how good A.I. art looks. Or share random images because it “looks cool”. Some may not even know that it’s A.I.

It’s not because A.I. is actually that good; in fact, most A.I. art is downright nightmare fuel. But it’s because the average person only glances at something shiny for a maximum of 5 seconds before hitting share or like. They don’t look at details or sit in quiet appreciation of the masterpiece in front of them. If they did, they’d notice the uneven eyes, extra limbs, disconnected lines, soulless composition and sloppy rendering.

But this is how these A.I. tech enthusiasts are gonna continue to slip under the radar. They’re taking advantage of people’s blind spots and low attention span and combining that with the instant gratification of “with a few keywords and button push, you too can make beautiful art”!

I believe that’s going to be a harder hurdle to get over moreso than the other valid points folks are making about security risks from uploading pics to random software that can use them however they like (cause in the age of social media and smartphone apps especially, people don’t care what company has their face when it’s already out there), or the ethical ramifications that harm real artists (cause a lot of people simply never respected artists in the first place outside of what they output).

And it won’t stop with art. Voice actors are having their voices digitized for future use to cut costs of hiring actual VAs for projects. People are experimenting “writing” books with A.I. All of these efforts suck in quality but do you think the general public will notice or care? The same public whose attention span is collectively bout the size of a goldfish? The same public with at most a 5th grade reading level? The same public who is trained to consume media spoonfed to them algorithmically at the speed of light?

#I’m just sayin it’s not looking too good for us creatives outchea #it may take years for it to really have any sort of major impact outside of outrage #but whew I get why artists are upset asf over this #and i don’t like how some folks downplay those angry at it #like what do you want? a big fat ‘we’ve been trying to tell you and you didn’t listen’ when AI gets out of control? #but art and media literacy I think is the biggest roadblock creatives will face here in the future #and ofc capitalism even making it possible for tech like this to be used immorally