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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
If you think about how much content we're already getting from mediocre artists and writers, how many tv shows are complete garbage, how much governments and corporations are promoting and trolling in online discussions, how many search results are already ruined by lazy copied content, it's difficult to see things getting orders of magnitude worse.

Good stuff will still be good stuff, and it will keep being rare. The biggest change will be that producing mediocre content will be cheaper and more accessible, but we're already drowning in it, so .. meh?

> Instead of replacing crappy jobs and freeing up peoples time to enjoy their life, we’re actually automating enjoyable pursuits.

That's an interesting observation.

>>karmak+07
Fair assessment, and I agree with much of your premise, though regards "it's difficult to see things getting orders of magnitude worse": Please don't challenge them.