Art Going Away or Not? ... AI Disturbing
At times, I can't help but laugh at AI-generated artwork. They try so hard to get it right, but it is so strangely fixated, as if they understand the process but fail to understand the inherent qualities of being unhuman, an elemental essence, a soul. And I think this is illustrative of a greater issue: the ways in which technology, especially AI, has sneakily settled into everything we do. Yes, some would argue that it is good that AI is making our lives easier, but that is only part of the story, it is also how capitalism is adopting AI to pull us toward a future where a small handful of mega corporations control everything, all in the name of progress.
But my point is this: art is not about making things easier, faster, more convenient, or cheaper. Art is about feeling, struggle, joy, and storytelling. No matter how advanced AI gets in generating visual imagery, it cannot reproduce what it is like to pour your blood into something. This is the reason that it is important to use the conception of art, real art for the reality base it implies.
Do not get me wrong, I am not claiming that AI should not exist and that technology has not historically entered into service as a tool for art and AI has the potential to expand that functionality beyond what we have ever experienced. However, that should not be confused with recreating art. We must remember what makes art valuable, the human experience, the intuition, the imperfection.
I hope we can represent a real human aspect and make effort to adapt to a technology world while maintaining the essence that we find appealing. AI can serve as profits to 'art,' but should not be called the artist itself. One other final aspect that I appreciate about art is making art because you feel something, not because it is easy or to be trendy. @alonicus told me in the comments of my blog yesterday that he's hoping AI doesn't make us irrelevant, I hope so too brother.
A good question. In my opinion, AI will push art from some niches but art will keep living in other niches. What I mean. For example, photography pushed away painting from documenting life. You don't need an artist to paint an image of your family (like in the Middle Ages - remember all those expensive family portraits in European mansions and castles?) - photography is enough in most cases nowadays. You don't need a painter to get a cityscape of your hometown, nobody asks painters to draw battles - there are photographers for that.
Cinema pushed theater away from some niches. But theater keeps being alive (although less popular than before) even after everyone can shoot a video. Moreover, "a movie" played with real people in front of you acquires more sense in the time of everything digital and online.
We also should divide art into two branches: refined art and art as design or fun. Fun and design art will entwine with AI art. Refined art, like real literature (not comics, not scripts for action movies, not Paulo Coelho and such) will stay away from AI. Anything you can create with AI automatically becomes not refined art.
You said right, art is about individual feelings and experiences. AI is generic and has no real life experience. I don't know ChatGPT, but I know Gemini: amazing but it's only a tool like a talking Wikipedia. And it's not a fact they'll be able to change it ever.
Well said brother, well said. Art will most certainly not go away and you explained it perfectly well. Some people think that a time will come where absolutely everything or every work will have AI and robots do it but that's because the lack the understanding and the wisdom you just shared in your comment. Some things cannot be replaced otherwise it loses the whole concept that's why somethings will remain human influenced instead of AI
You're right . AI, has diverted our minds from the way we used to think
It really has friend
AI is here to stay like blockchain
Indeed good friend, indeed