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>>dredmo+(OP)
Does anybody else find the whole AI art generation thing both amazing and incredibly depressing at the same time? I’ve played around with it and it’s lots of fun. But I can also see a deluge of mediocre “content” taking over the internet in the near future. “Real art” will become a niche underground discipline. Most popular music will be AI generated and will have fake performers also generated to go along with it. And most people will be fine with that.

I don’t think “real art” will disappear. People will always want to create (although monetising that will now be exceedingly more difficult).

It feels like we are ripping the humanity out of life on a greater and greater scale with tech. Instead of replacing crappy jobs and freeing up peoples time to enjoy their life, we’re actually automating enjoyable pursuits.

NB: when I’m referring to art I mean of all types as that’s where we are heading.

>>spikea+w5
> But I can also see a deluge of mediocre “content”

Have you been to the internet?

In all seriousness, the cream will rise to the top. The mediocre “content” will get generated and we will get better at filtering it out which will decrease the value in generating mediocre content, etc etc. The tools being produced just further level the playing field for humanity and allow more people to get “in the arena” more easily.

Humans are still the final judge of the value being produced, and the world/internet will respond accordingly.

For a thought exercise, take your argument and apply it to the internet as a whole, from the perspective of a book or newspaper publisher in the 1990s.