Will Artificial Intelligence End Human Creativity?

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  @Design.Theory · 8 months ago (edited) · pinned

  NOTE: This video no longer reflects my views on artificial intelligence, especially the way it is used in art/design. Lots of new information on the technology has come out since this video came out. I'm keeping it up because I think it's more interesting to keep a record of my past ideas and sentiments and see how they evolve, rather than just deleting them. While I do disagree with most of what I said here, I think there are still a few interesting points.

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  @cesarchavez9160 · 4 years ago

  I have mixed feelings about this, I always thought that art and design would be the last thing an AI could do and as someone who studies art I get several existential doubts such as: should I stop studying and focus on how to use AI? Or wasted all this time studying and practicing anatomy, light and color, structure, perspective? And despite enjoying making art, now I feel useless and that all my efforts have been useless because there is already something that potentially can do it faster, better and cheaper.

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  @wesbaumguardner8829 · 4 years ago

  I don't think the dangers of AI are overblown.  I think they are actually underestimated.

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  @Epiphanity · 3 years ago

  The trend of people having to learn no actual manual skills (drawing, painting, spelling, photography, sculpting, handwriting, math, drafting, etc) will just accelerate.  Right now, many of those creators still have those skills left over from needing them in the past, which can augment their use of AI. That's why current artists get better results with AI than non-artists. But new generations will have less incentive to learn those skills and fundamentals. The AI is what they'll start off with, and they will only ever know getting instant results by asking a question and clicking a button without the manual work and  never having to learn all the details that go with it. Any specific tool can help you but also limit you.  Younger generations will use their hands less and less.  I already see the issue with my nieces and nephews, where they're more interested in instant results, and mostly see the years of work necessary to learn old school art as a disincentive to ever learning it. They don't get that after a while the process itself is enjoyable.

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  @nadia-bb5mn · 4 years ago

  I find this devastating. Feeling in awe of art is important, and that will be lost. Also, as an artist, I enjoy the tedious part of rendering. We don't need to make more stuff faster, we need meaningful work that we find fulfilling. People are meant to create, not just consume. There is something hollow in just consuming.

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  @emubeepboop · 3 years ago

  What I am most concerned about right now as an artist is not AI stealing our jobs but companies stealing our artwork to make ai art. There are many examples of AI art looking very very similar to a current artists work without any credit or money given to that artist. As mentioned in the video, an AI can't create stuff out of nowhere. Companies shouldn't be allowed to just steal art from small artists and feed it to an AI to make bland copies of that artists work.

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  @weeeezzlll · 4 years ago

  &quot;One thing that AI can never replace is human collaboration.&quot;<br><br>The immortal words of someone who is doomed to be proven wrong in two-six months.

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  @anilithic · 3 years ago (edited)

  The thing that worries me is that this won&apos;t be like the advent of photography. This won&apos;t just take away a few old fields and create a dozen new ones. To me it feels like AI will kill hundreds of professions, replacing them with only a couple in return. So many artists will just have nowhere to go because we can&apos;t expect all of them to suddenly become prompt makers or something<br>I&apos;m an illustrator/character designer. I&apos;m also learning 3D, can do some environmental/interior design. If one of my skillsets becomes obsolete - no worries, I have 4-5 more career options. But with AI? I have 0. And that terrifies me to the bone.

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  @SadeN_0 · 4 years ago

  I was seriously annoyed by how dumb and surface level almost all videos covering DALL-E and Imagen were, mostly because they were made by creatively bankrupt tech fanboys instead of artists, designers and historians. This video on the other hand is fantastic, exactly the kind of insightful coverage I was looking for. Thank you very much, great stuff!

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  @aniksamiurrahman6365 · 4 years ago

  The most horrific thing is that, all these AIs are owned by only a few companies: Microsoft (OpenAI), Google and a few. There&apos;s a valid possibility that in future the whole world would be owned by a few companies.

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  @benjaminmangum · 3 years ago

  After doing research on this topic, in my case for audio and music production, for the last few months. I&apos;ve come to the conclusion that A.I will be used on mass scale for big business and completely wipe out commerical creatives unless you are literally the top 1% of your field. Nothing will be entry level, nothing will be mid level. You&apos;ll have to be elite in your field to be considered by a large company.<br>Small businesses and individuals will stick to using free or cheaper A.I tools to make quick concepts and maybe use them as their actual products, but will still reach out to humans for the fine detail work. The other group of people I could see still hiring humans would be the highly successful and wealthy to commission a large and highly personalized art piece.<br>The only way a human will be able to make a living off of their art is if they can produce something so different and well made that an A.I doesn&apos;t have enough data points on it to reproduce something of the same caliber. (at that time, because the more work you do. The more A.I will learn about your art style. You&apos;re killing your job everytime you make something.)

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  @theaxosphere · 3 years ago

  At this point I create art purely for personal satisfaction, like most artists it is something I have been doing since I learned to hold a pencil and it is a part of me. I don&apos;t care if I can&apos;t make money with it of course I am looking at other ways to make money for survival but I have isolated my love for art from any material gains it can bring me. Yes, I did spend a lot of time mastering some basic techniques and they help me bring my imagination into reality I don&apos;t care if someone else is going to pay me for it or not as long as it makes me feel something

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