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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
To me it's terrifying and gives me a bit of panic playing with it. This is still early stuff, like dial-up or 100Mhz processors. We all know the trajectory tech takes nowadays, and the writing on the wall here is an event horizon where it's impossible to see the full scope of how this tech will change the world.

We're like people getting the very first electric light bulbs in their home, trying to speculate how electricity will change the world. The pace of change however will be orders of magnitude faster than that.