Is AI RUINING Art?

AI has been on the march as of late and now threatens the sanctity of human driven art. Is this the end for multiple industries as we know it? Can anything be done to stop AI from stealing from artists and claiming their work?

SUPPORT ME ON PATREON FOR EXCLUSIVE PERKS!

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER!

BUY MY MERCH!
_______________________

Video Credits
►Sabiespark voice by Elsie Lovelock
►Video Script and Research by Saberspark
►Video Script and Research by Tom Oliver
►Video Script and Research by Katy Johnson
►Video Edits and Thumbnail by Henri
►Video Edits by gum
►Video Edits by Aficionados Chris
►Audio Edits by dBPony
►Avatar by Rishi
►Intro Music/Outro Music by Hirosashii
_______________________

📝Research Sources📝

🎨Art of the Week by 🎨
►Murkybag3221
_______________________

[Saberspark]

What do you all think though? Will AI be the death of artistically driven industries?

[skataman]

Funfact: a judge once said that art made under ai cannot be copyrighted since there is no producer and artist behind it

[ShadowEclipex]

I had a kinda depressing conversation with someone who was the head of a VA Group who is actively fighting AI usage in Voice Acting, but he also actively used AI to make AI Gen images, and somehow he didn't see the blatant hypocrisy in that.

[thechaosjacket]

I do not trust corporations with AI generated images, videos, and audio. I doubt it will ever replace human creativity, but corporate higher ups only care about their own paychecks and not the people who create the actual art.

[DarthBiomech]

Nothing torpedoes fate in the future more than looking at the reaction of people on sites like Twitter. They're basically _salivating_ at the prospect of artists losing their jobs.
Even a reader of my own webcomic once said "wouldn't it be cool to train AI on your work so that I could get new pages faster?"
It's not just techbros and billionaires. Regular people devalue artists as well.

[Brogie_]

“The irony that we’re automating the production of art instead of jobs we hate shouldn’t be lost on us”

[GamerMagek-kliq]

It’s ironic how the jobs that people would prefer to have both for fun and for pay are the ones being replaced versus the ones that no one wants that could actually benefit from automation due to safety reasons…

[EngineerRiff]

Someone once said, AI pictures aren’t art, they’re just pictures. More people should hear this quote

[Catpuff]

Companies are in such a rush to get rid of people, I fear for what will become of all the people who lose their jobs when everything that can be automated will be automated.

[heathinv]

if AI can generate storyboards, animation, and stories themselves, then why do we need the entertainment companies? To write the prompts?

[verboselocket]

I am an artist, and imo i dont care if someone uses AI "art" for memes. But it should NOT be used for profit

Edit: I didnt like AI art before but am now thinking people should just create their own memes without image generators. AI "Art" will never be ethical

[v.crowley]

Ai isn’t ruining art…. People using ai as “their content” is ruining art

[KoongYe]

Imagine a life where you go to a soul-sucking office work you hate all day, come back and consume souless media generated by AI and a handful of Prompt-writing-people. You do that everyday until you die.
That's Tech/Media companies' Utopia and Human's Dystopia.

[Silverwinglz]

As someone graduating this year for a degree in animation...this ai mess is incredibly discouraging in regards to potential jobs.
AI may not be "art" but companies would love to keep their money and pay less workers (or however the industry works)

I'm not feeling terribly optimistic for the future

[stabakoder]

My major concern about AI-Art is how quickly people starting using it as a crutch. Both in schools and within the workforce. It's bad enough each generation lose more and more of their imagination, inspiration, as well as problem solving. Why figure out something or create something complex when I can have an AI solve it in seconds? With these companies that want to use AI to cut down on cost. We're going to see more and more people giving up their dreams because they're being taken over by AI thanks to some cheap corpo that wanted to milk an extra buck.

Edit: Holy f**k the comments. Someone within the comment section is a prime example of go touch some grass.

[xxTC-xx]

It’s being channelled into the wrong things. We could be using it as a tool to help make UV mapping easier or speed up the colouring process of animation. But nope, people use it to generate images and claim it’s “art”. I always encourage people to steal these images, they can’t be copyrighted

[YoshiMario]

There is a book called Understanding Comics. It ends up helping readers understand ART as a whole, actually. In one of the latter chapters, the book talks about how most people first perceive only the surface form of art, but have no idea about the core structure that makes that surface level appearance possible. The analogy uses an apple. The shiny surface of the apple is what most people see, and it is rather easy to just want to learn to copy that surface level result, but if you bite into an apple like that, you soon find that it is actually just an empty shell, devoid of what made up the core of the actual apple that it was based on. The core, and seed is the idea or purpose, then you have the Form, is this a movie, a book, a comic etc., then you got the idiom, which you can say is the style that the particular form will take on, then you got the Structure - is this linear, singular, is it an endless looping story? is this a saga or Epic? - Then you got the actual Craft, which is HOW you make it - pencils, inks, paints, digital medium, film, actors doing their thing etc. etc., and then FINALLY you get to the Surface, whic is the careful polishing, review, cleaning up, arrangement of all that work that was made and finally printing it, or screening it, or showcasing it in a frame or whatever you choose to do.

Most people just see the Mona Lisa, for example, and try to draw what they see there, but fail to understand the man behind it and all his life experience that allowed him to ever create such a wonderful irreplicable work of human expression that to this day continues to inspire millions.

[CinnamonGrrlErin]

As long as humans have the drive to create, true art will never die. I was just reading something recently about how when photography first came around, some people really thought it would be the death of paintings, and that never happened. Commercial artists are definitely going to take a major blow though.

[plumaDshinigami]

Expect this to happen and repeat itself in the future since it's already happened in China:

1 - AI "NOT artist" but AI operator produces a lot of high quality pictures because it takes little time and effort to make them with an AI. Starts selling those pictures like high quality pictures at low prices.
2 - AI Operator gets hired by company, company asks for the AI operator for varied poses and compositions that the AI operator has't done on his thousands of pictures.
3 - AI operator realizes that the AI is limited to a narrow range of poses and compositions, AI operator is forced to invest time and effort for each picture.
4 - AI operator is not willing to sell his time and effort cheap, increases prices exponentially for each second that takes over writing some prompts.
5 - Company realizes why Real Artists charge so much for their time, effort, and experience. AI operator realizes they are not an artist as the company has to crawl back to the Real Artists.

[Ahalaya]

I hope anyone supporting this extends that support to art photography. As someone who got their degree in photography and has done a lot of it as art, I can tell you it is not as simple as pointing a camera at something and clicking a button. Especially with the style I typically employ, there is a lot of Time spent in post-production, even for digital images.