Recently laid off and looking for employment. Developing a show idea and returning to illustration.
I just saw a post by someone trying to defend generative AI by comparing it to recording tools like a still image or video camera. Friends, they are not the same thing. Cameras capture reality. They capture moments you want to remember. AI does not. They also tried to compare generative AI to electronic instruments like synthesizers and electric guitars. The difference is that you can use a synthesizer to compose a piece of music that expresses your emotions. Generative AI must depend on an existing work to start with, and even then it doesn't express emotion. If at all successful, it merely continues the emotion that had already been captured by the original work. Worse, generative AI is not the work of an artist. It's the work of a machine trying vainly to piggyback on the work of others. It's not art. Art isn't slavishly doing what someone else already did. You're not thrilling me with "wow, we can make the Mona Lisa talk!" That's not emotionally affective, unless you want me to feel disgust. In my mind, the ONLY reason to develop generative AI is because you're too cheap to pay a real artist or actor for their craft. Because anything developed by AI lacks human nuance, the insight that can only come from a lived experience. Making long-since passed away actors perform for your amusement -- or at worst, for money -- is the work of a ghoul, desperately mining the value of someone else's work for their own gain without contributing anything of creative value to the continuum of art. I started to comment on the post, then I saw it had one Like and no comments. That's good enough.
Interactive Production Artist at Apple Computers
4moWhenever I see someone trying to frame Generative AI as a legitimate art tool, I challenge them to *iterate.* Do that same image again, but make the figure in front looking 90 degrees right. Keep everything the same, but take down the keylight. I like that, but can you but her in a blue silk dress instead of the frilly nightgown? No, they can't. They have to start from scratch every time. That's not control, that's not mastery, that's not Art.