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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 these generated arts just replace human created arts, then it can be construed as depressing.

But what if AI generates arts where humans do not scale?

For example, what if the AAA game you are expecting gets done in half of the time, or has ten times the size of explorable area, because it is cheap and fast to generate many of the arts needed by AI?

Or if some people excellent at story telling but mediocre at drawing can now produce world class manga due to the assistance of AI?