Bravo S Peter Davis! We need more creatives writing about the gen AI impact on our work. And getting those articles out into the world. We need to keep talking about it, and insist on retaining our human right to create, because it is a HUMAN RIGHT. It's a human right that's being taken away not by AI, but by other humans.
Put simply, generative AI taking over the creative fields is really about one human telling another human they are no longer valued—because they weren’t truly valued to begin with. That's what it boils down to. We are the auto-immune disease.
p.s. A little more context about the Jesus Christ painting at the top of this post... on the left is a 1930 fresco of Christ by Elías García Martínez, titled Ecce Homo and on the right is the result of an 81-year-old woman who had been permitted to try and restore the painting, and of course failed miserably. Kinda like what AI is doing to our human art works.
It's also funny in a dark way that these LLMs and dall-es are being used to gobble up the jobs with the least amount of personal profit attached to them, in the present day "entertainment industry". Nobody's further from the next dollar than the writer or musician or artist, after all. In any case, the flood of rock-dumb profiteers trying to use this stuff to crank out low-effort "content" are going to ruin it soon, as their models begin to poison each other's datasets, either accidentally or on purpose.
Art is the language we speak when we want to touch the divine. Not all of us speak it well, to be sure... but perhaps that is why those who've never been able to produce art have been hypnotized by generative AI. They do not have to walk through the fire. They don't have to devote the time. They don't have to burn through the pain. No pain, all gain, they think.
I saw the first hints of this back around the early aughts at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, that I was reporting on for the Hollywood trades. The SONY PD-150 was a hot item—it had blown open film production to the common man and woman, and everyone was suddenly a film director. That day at the festival, my blood ran cold as I sat in the screening room, watching compilations of vomited ideas strung together on laptops without narrative, without structure, without soul. Thankfully, over the next few years the real artists took back the narrative, but with YouTube and other platforms it's never really been the same. We have to wade through Sargasso Seas of "content" to find the gems that used to simply wash up on our beaches.
Bravo S Peter Davis! We need more creatives writing about the gen AI impact on our work. And getting those articles out into the world. We need to keep talking about it, and insist on retaining our human right to create, because it is a HUMAN RIGHT. It's a human right that's being taken away not by AI, but by other humans.
Put simply, generative AI taking over the creative fields is really about one human telling another human they are no longer valued—because they weren’t truly valued to begin with. That's what it boils down to. We are the auto-immune disease.
https://themuse.substack.com/p/we-are-an-auto-immune-disease
p.s. A little more context about the Jesus Christ painting at the top of this post... on the left is a 1930 fresco of Christ by Elías García Martínez, titled Ecce Homo and on the right is the result of an 81-year-old woman who had been permitted to try and restore the painting, and of course failed miserably. Kinda like what AI is doing to our human art works.
It's also funny in a dark way that these LLMs and dall-es are being used to gobble up the jobs with the least amount of personal profit attached to them, in the present day "entertainment industry". Nobody's further from the next dollar than the writer or musician or artist, after all. In any case, the flood of rock-dumb profiteers trying to use this stuff to crank out low-effort "content" are going to ruin it soon, as their models begin to poison each other's datasets, either accidentally or on purpose.
Art is the language we speak when we want to touch the divine. Not all of us speak it well, to be sure... but perhaps that is why those who've never been able to produce art have been hypnotized by generative AI. They do not have to walk through the fire. They don't have to devote the time. They don't have to burn through the pain. No pain, all gain, they think.
I saw the first hints of this back around the early aughts at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, that I was reporting on for the Hollywood trades. The SONY PD-150 was a hot item—it had blown open film production to the common man and woman, and everyone was suddenly a film director. That day at the festival, my blood ran cold as I sat in the screening room, watching compilations of vomited ideas strung together on laptops without narrative, without structure, without soul. Thankfully, over the next few years the real artists took back the narrative, but with YouTube and other platforms it's never really been the same. We have to wade through Sargasso Seas of "content" to find the gems that used to simply wash up on our beaches.
Finally somebody says it...chat GPT is not creative at all
What we really need is an AI that can read books for us, as well as create them, so we don't have to. Then it'll all be fine.