3 Things Every Artist Must Realize About AI - John Vorhaus

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In this video, John Vorhaus believes that AI will have a significant impact on various creative fields, similar to how the internet transformed society. He discusses how he, as a writer, utilizes AI tools and templates to generate outlines, beat sheets, and assess story structure. He sees AI as a tool, a partner, and a competitor, acknowledging its potential without feeling threatened by it. While AI is still in its early stages and not entirely accurate, Vorhaus appreciates how it has solved some challenges in his digital art. He highlights the importance of using AI as a creative tool and partner, but also acknowledges the risks of AI borrowing existing content and violating copyright. Vorhaus emphasizes that true AI should respond to sophisticated search terms and generate original content. However, if AI becomes so advanced that it replaces human involvement, it becomes a competitor.

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[Korradoar]

if the AI gave it to you, its not yours. Period. You're not creative enough if you're utilizing artificial intelligence to build the foundation of your piece (what ever it is).

[heathsavage]

I can only feel depressed by this most recent step on the path towards to deliberate obsolescence of humanity. The "Not a good thing not a bad thing" schtick doesn't wash anymore.

[liquidbraino]

Studio executives have already been acting like AI for YEARS and only producing stories that are based on formulas which they already know will work. There's very little originality in movies and TV these days anyway so what difference does it make if they tell GPT-4 "rewrite raiders of the lost ark but put in on Mars in the yesr 2067 and add five fight scenes that have twenty different people fighting at the same time"?

Even Stranger Things is a rip-off of every major movie that's come out in the last fifty years. A kids kost in another dimension and they only hear his voice electronically - Poltergeist. The Sherrif has to go after the monster - Jaws. He even drives exactly the same truck. Even Cobra Kai is nothing but the original Karate Kid story told exactly the same way and the only thing they changed is the character names. Kids getting picked on; runs into a "reluctant hero" who doesn't want to train him; kid convinces him to help; teacher sets up a fight at the all valley competition. It's better than most other crap on TV but it's still the same old story rehashed and regurgitate for a low IQ audience that doesn't know any better and is obsessed with 1980's nostalgia.

It doesn't matter how brilliant any human writer is, if it doesn't look like every single block buster that came out in the last twenty years it's never going to get produced.

I'd rather pay $5 to attend a film festival and see twenty different and original short films and a few full length movies than pay $25 to see the same old regurgitated crap that the major studios have been putting out with absolutely no substance; only designed to keep the attention of an idiot genZ audience with twenty minute long fight scenes, explosions every thirty seconds, twerking and the worst acting I've ever seen. I'd rather eat dog shit than watch another brainless Marvel movie and even the last Matrix movie was trying to be another Marvel movie, fight scenes with twenty people all fighting at once and a convoluted; contrived story.

When the major studios are willing to take risks on a unique; creative and original story again I'll start paying to see movies in the theater again but until then it's not worth my time. I'll just watch it on some Putlocker alternative on a screen the size of a dollar bill because that's about what it's worth; save my money and my brain cells. Last time I went to go see a movie in the theater I walked out twenty minutes into it.

You'd think that for the amount of money people are willing to pay for movie tickets the major studios could do more than just phone it in. They're making NO EFFORT at all to produce genuine entertainment these days, it's 100% about money. Look how many remakes they keep pushing out. How many times do they NEED to remake "Around The World in 80 Days"? And all of the remakes were crap anyway. Might as well just take a picture of a painting and then call myself "Slob Ross".

[Thenoobestgirl]

From experience, AI like ChatGPT is a terrific tool for research, brainstorming and inspiration. Also generating images with AI is truly addictive lol
Until AI can write an entire coherent, high quality screenplay, I don't consider it a competitor. (also it's pretty terrible at writing jokes atm so I don't see it replacing comedians any time soon either)

[bcdside]

Sort of like how some directors only shoot on film, or how some musical composers only orchestrate their scores themselves, or how some comedians don’t use foul language, I think writers who refuse to use AI will be a selling point or a badge of honor for some entertainment products. Indeed, if AI gets as powerful as Skynet, many disgusted people that actively shun AI technology will probably welcome the purist creators - myself included.

[AJShiningThreads]

I asked it to write "in the style" of various famous writers i knew well. Chatgpt 3.5 pulled from the writers verbatim! Out and out plagiarism.
Ive not tried this with chatgpt4 and I use it as an editing tool. It speeds up my writing process but at this point its prose are terrible. "He was filled with determination, " " his heart pounded in this chest" type of stuff.

[MasterChron]

Nice video. I take issue with using the AI moniker (but I suppose it's here to stay), as I don't find it to be artificially reproducing what my brain does. It's more like a lump of data that spits out an output based on a prompt. In that regard I find it more akin to the next evolution of the search engine. So... until these systems can live a life, parse the world with a contiguous stream of consciousness, grow as individuals, be inspired by other works and go on journeys with those inspirations in reality, there is no reason to think of it as competition. Really it's just blending search results into a singular concise output, it's not thinking about what it's saying or making. It's just making predictions based on what we've already done, so your point about it being infringing on copyright seems very apt to me. All that said I think it's a great tool, we just need to deal with the legal ramifications of stealing other peoples work, blending it together, and spitting it back out in the ecosystem, effectively pushing artists out with their own effort.

[yapdog]

We're entering the era of lost arts. There'll just be "idea people" cobbling together older works in whole or in part via AI. The result is that true art will be lost in the machine.. This frightens us now, but like all lost arts, it will be the norm. There'll always be artists who prefer to create original works, but they can't beat the clock/pricing and will ultimately be feeding the machine.

Yes, we *can* embrace the new tools, but we have to recognize that, because works will be devalued, they will widen the chasm between the haves and have-nots. This will affect creatives and all white collar jobs. And, if there are no social safety nets, we're headed for disaster by the next decade. So, it's not the same as other technologies that you both mentioned in this video.

BTW, I've studied AI extensively (on my own), have my own theories and algorithms, wrote about the coming problems in my novel, and have been developing an Operating System for Creators that will *responsibly* leverage AI and combat the problems associated with works attribution and authentication.

[ExpatRiot]

I strong disagree with John. it's possible to invent a bomb that destroys us artistically. I think that's what AI is fundamentally, a bomb of artistic destruction. It's possible to invent a tool so good that it erases what it was there to help. I don't feel i could call myself a writer if used AI generatively, it's on the same level as plagiarism. Art is a process. the reason AI is a bomb is because it blows up the process. AI generated outlines and beat sheets are part of that weapon of artistic destruction.

[ArnoAEvers]

That`s good to know. Thanks for posting.

[jayneb]

But hasn't been showcase that AI do steal writers and fanfiction style and structure?

[wexwuthor]

Art and ceativity are not just making choices. Art is more than the finished product. It's supposed to have a more intrinsic value.

[Moritz]

3:23 "interesting"..sounded like she just woke up.^^

[bcatbb]

dam, he said what i've been thinking for a while now. i too am using Ai to help with my work and it's been making things many times faster and more effective. Yes, it's a competition to my work as well and i can see that, but at the same time, it's not perfect and i'm confident i will stand on top.
Ai isn't work free, it also takes some level of effort from the user to perform. the public doesn't seem to understand this part

[greggh]

2:15 - Reminded me a bit of The Astronaut Farmer with Billy Bob Thornton.

[theriddleman]

Artificial intelligence has significantly improved my writing and art skills based on my personal experience. For creative individuals, AI can enhance and augment their abilities. Without a person, Hollywood cannot create a script. Writers will continue to be in demand to produce quality content. Furthermore, AI refrains from plagiarizing the works of other artists and writers. This text is carefully crafted to avoid plagiarism. Generative AI and LLM utilize neural networks that function similarly to the human brain. When using AI to assist with writing, it can be inspired by a writer's style without plagiarizing, similar to how humans are inspired to create their own work.

[alancham]

I’ve been trying to use AI to do previz and create some style frames…. It’s pretty hard to get what you want. It will give a lot of beautiful well done things you don’t want.

[albertabramson]

Heres the problem with AI for stories: Think of yiur favorite 2-3 movies and what you love about each one. Was it the originality of it? Were the ideas that made those stories great thecresult of writers consulting with other human beings?

[DerHammerSpricht]

The best thing is it allows creatives to focus on creative decisions instead of spending time and energy doing rote chores.

[lazerith]

I agree with opinions of ai he has. It’s a fine line between tool and competition when it comes to ai. It’s completely up to the artist how that situation turns out. I look at ai as a helper and a tool that still needs to be refined.