Op-Ed: Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It's starting now
www.latimes.com
AIs can spit out work in the style of any artist they were trained on — eliminating the need for anyone to hire that artist again.
    • fiat_lux
      3•1 year ago

      It makes art production and consumption more accessible to the non-wealthy, this is very true.

      But, and I know this is going to be controversial, but what if human creativity and/or human evaluations of creative works are just not as advanced or special as we would like to believe.

      And what if, by making art production/appreciation more accessible, we’re less monetarily devaluing art as much as removing unnecessary exclusivity.

      This is not to say I don’t think artists are valuable. I just think we muddy the whole concept of value by prioritising financial value and forcing people to produce financial value so they can live.

  • @[email protected]English
    8•1 year ago

    There’s always been a sociopolitical rift between artists and the corporations that hire them. The corpos would like nothing more than to send the hippies packing, and the corpos are the side with the money and the lawyers.

    It begins with things like book covers and movie posters. And at some point, AI is trained on animation as well as artwork. Individual actors become created by AI, voices included. Feature film CGI sequences get produced by digital brains. It will be rough at first, but less and less intervention will be needed as the training models are refined, until it gets good enough to satisfy the suits and their bean counters.

    Popular music as we know it will probably also come under threat. Various types of writing will also be tested. Anything that an AI can be made to sufficiently emulate is going to be tested by someone who wants to make more money – or pocket more of the dividends instead of sharing it with stakeholders with a pulse. “Made by people” becomes a rallying cry for the creators who push back.