So, Is AI Art?

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We’ve experienced incredible breakthroughs in our capabilities, and of course it’s largely because of “Artificial Intelligence.” We can now restore old footage, isolate tracks, or even create new songs entirely, with just the click of a button. The impossible has just become possible.

AI is appearing throughout all sectors of our society: writing, problem solving, remastering, assistant technology, job hiring, just about anything you could think of is now incorporating some kind of AI into it.

What was once a primitive concept made up of beta testing and wishful thinking has now become a commodity to be bought and sold. It is something so eerily advanced in its capabilities, it may just very well be fungible with human labor. Because you don’t have to pay AI, you don’t have to feed it. You just…let it work, forever. And of course, our worst nightmares are now coming to fruition, the corporations are getting involved. People are now reportedly losing their jobs due to its massive growth. These sudden events have posed what will likely be one of the most controversial questions of the 21st Century: Is AI going to replace what we do? Particularly art?

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[nationsquid]

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[BlackthorneSoundandCinema]

AI is no true competitor or replacement of the human mind. The problem is that it will be positioned as such.

[CatsOverBrats]

In Spain they had an issue at a high school class where someone had created nude AI pictures of the 12 year old girls and they were being shared around as if they were real. AI can and will be used for so many cruel things, and it will only get worse as the AI evolves and gets better looking.

[randomnessnecesity]

Stop worrying about ai? That sounds like a thing ai would say

[signalmixer]

I think there's a difference between telegraph operators switching jobs and artists switching jobs. Most people don't go into art just to make money - they develop a passion and pursue it their whole life. That's why having it taken away hurts, especially when it's the most human, most creative parts that are being replaced instead of the more laborious parts of the process. It just feels a little demeaning having to fix up AI art where it kinda did the ""fun" parts for you.

[Zombie_Trooper]

I wouldn't if it weren't for the fact I've already lost jobs thanks to AI, as an art director. I agree, AI is an overblown, monster in the closet, but I can't say it hasn't affected my potential income...

[kalebgray]

My worry is that companies will try to use it to replace workers regardless of its effectiveness. We have to fight for our place, for regulations and fines for AI that make it impractical to use in place of workers.

[Crazyboutpeace]

The issue is that businesses are stupid, and chase short term profit to the detriment of all. Hasbro recently fired 1200 people and have supposedly put up jobs for people who are skilled in "touching up images" and basically generating images with AI tools. So I will worry, because realistically there is cause to.

[briansydnor]

Welp. Sadly, 32 minutes and 34 seconds later, I'm STILL worried about AI. Not so much the software, but the mentality propelling it.

Make no mistake, if artists are still making a living in 10 years (don't forget, ALL humans need to eat), it won't be the work of (apologies...) logically convoluted video essays, but the tireless efforts of the art community pressuring their govornments for regulation. It'll be labor strikes and protests. It'll be the general public becoming more culturally literate. Above all, it'll be a repudiation of Silicon Valley's imfamous "Move fast, break things" philosophy. *This* is what a "proactive" co-existience with AI technology means.

The future is not a spectator sport. The most dangerous thing we can do right now is confuse "very limited power" with "no power".

[zsdfsbi]

The problem is that automation took tedius jobs. AI is taking expressive jobs. Machines (computer chips) are finally starting to, in a limited way for now, understand the task being given to them.

[iamthekittycat]

I’m just worried that it will make people forget how mistakes are okay and we have to work for things in life.

[artakaworks]

Hard not to worry about A.I. when artists are losing their jobs en masse :/

[VogeGandire]

This video only works for being "optimistic" because you scanned straight over "yeah, new technology means mass layoffs". When vast numbers of people are replaced by AI, they're not going to just decide "Well, I don't need a job anymore, so I'll make art". They'll decide "man, it really sucks sleeping on the street because I can't pay rent because my bosses decided to replace me with a computer that does the job worse than me because you don't have to pay a computer".

[lightningqueen]

Mmm heyyy Nationsquid, artist to artist, I don't think you understood the point.

There are a few main things about AI that I have noticed most artists hate. 1) It's plagiarism. Someone is taking my work and feeding it into a thoughtless algorithm without my consent. Maybe I would be ok with someone using my art as a reference, but AI is just taking my stuff! 2) we still need our jobs. Maybe in time we'll move on to other jobs and learn to coexist, but we don't live in a world where we have the luxury to be without a job for an extended period of time. And 3) it's lifeless, an insult. People deciding hours, days, weeks of effort are worth so little that we can have that effort be fed through a shredder and pieces back together by something that has no concept of tone, mood, composition, no feeling behind anything it does. Imagine being told your work was that worthless?

There are other problems with AI, but this is purely from my perspective as an artist. So yeah, I think this video was a bit of a miss, sorry Nationsquid.

[mulletman]

You, my friend, are optimistic about the future potential of A.I


I'm deeply concerned about the motives of the people pushing and influencing A.I.


We are not the same.

[naokurogami]

Before the video is up. Here is my thought on the current AI situation as someone who is involved in the animation industry.

For animation studios and the industry, yes, we need to worry.
Illustrators and concept artists in my professional circle are already losing their jobs and projects for 2D illustrations such as logo or design are in critical situation right now because clients are like, "We just need to use AI why pay for these artists?"
Yes, we can't replace 2D artists completely... yet. But right now, it is a real fact that it is impacting their livelihoods.

And in the future? Will 3D modelers, riggers, animators - get replaced too? 2D animators? Editors?

[rmacsthing]

Hmmm... This all sounds suspiciously like what AI would say...

[PuppyLuver]

The problem with so-called """ai""" (it's not intelligent, a more accurate term would be machine generation) isn't that artists are worried about being replaced by it, at least not long-term. The problem is that nearly ALL machine generation is trained on data--text, images, voice, and video--that is scraped without consent of the creator. If we could guarantee that all of the training data was obtained with the full informed permission of the people who made the original material, I for one wouldn't have an issue with it beyond personal taste, cuz yeah it honestly looks bad even when it's "good". But we can't guarantee that, we'll never be able to guarantee that unless an artist creates a machine generation tool specifically trained on their own work and no one else's, and there's a worrying non-zero amount of machine generators who take great pride in the fact that they're churning out sludge made from grinding up several _actual_ artists' work and plopping out some bland nonemotional paste.

[KacperPL]

Even as someone who finds AI interesting and fun, I can't but see that there IS what to worry about. With the given examples of similiar hysterias in the past, the difference is those were revolutions in certain industries - photography, drawing, communication. AI, on the other hand, can replace so much industries at once, and as the world becomes more focused on digitality, it's influence is larger than anything

[Proxy]

“Nothing can replace you”
Thanks, I needed that