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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
I've been complaining about this with AI generated content in general as well, especially Twitter and blog posts. I worry that we're in a sort of downward spiral, creating a feedback loop of bad content. Eventually models will get trained on this badly generated content, and it will reduce the overall vocabulary of the Internet. Take this to the extreme, and we'll keep going until everything is just regurgitated nonsense. Essentially sucking the soul out of humanity (not that tweets and blog posts are high art or anything). I know that sounds a little drastic but I really think there's a lurking evil that we don't have our eye on here, in terms of humanity and AI. We've already seen glimpses of it even with basic ad targeting and various social media "algorithms".

>>adamhp+P8
Considering the level of discourse in almost any Twitter thread on any popular topic, it’s hard to be sure it hasn’t already happened.