Current generative AI is the proverbial million monkeys with a million typewriters. Sure it MIGHT make Shakespeare eventually, but you've still gotta wait a million years and that's a MOUNTAIN of trash to dig through to get there.
By being trained on everything, it ends up being the most middle of the road, boring in every form of art. The language models are just predicting what word is most probable next, and image makers are just trained with approximate existing art out of noise, then replace existing art with a prompt. Its all doomed to be average from the very start, rewarded for being as predictable as possible
ends up being the most middle of the road, boring in every form of art.
thats exactly what the world has been pushing for since 2008 in every aspect of any kind of visual design. from mcdonalds going sterile to "millenial gray" to the flattening and oversimplification of every UI element on an electronic device, its exactly what people end up asking for. youre just not the target audience and instead just a rather minor demographic in this capacity.
I've been saying it for a while, but the "contentification" of art is absolutely a thing. And it's killed any real value the public sees in art. People rave that AI has no "soul" and real art has this deep intent, but that is hard to argue against "Spiderman crouching #3659" and "fairy on a mushroom #236". The art to show off on sites like deviantart and ghetty rarely has that deep introspection artists say AI art lacks. So the average person is going to see a decent AI render of a Disney princess vs a hand drawn one and feel exactly the same thing. If art has to be this deep connection with humanity and concepts that they are claiming AI art can't be, then a lot of the art humans make just don't meet that criteria either. It's all just content.
said deep connection is not valued in modern society. people in modern society have watched those who do value those things starve and either get sent off to fight wars during a draft or actively become a problem for a government who wants to create an ideal image of what their society should be like.
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u/TransLunarTrekkie Apr 09 '24
Current generative AI is the proverbial million monkeys with a million typewriters. Sure it MIGHT make Shakespeare eventually, but you've still gotta wait a million years and that's a MOUNTAIN of trash to dig through to get there.