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

This feels like the natural outcome of Moravec's paradox[1]. I can imagine a grim future where most intellectually stimulating activities are done by machines and most of the work that's left for humans is building, cleaning, and maintaining the physical infrastructure that keeps these machines running. Basically all the physical grunt work that has proven hard to find a general technological solution for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

>>Alexan+bz
Oh, so there's a term for this -- TIL. I've heard something along these lines. I think AI diagnostics are a good thing, but I expressed worry about the medical field going away to somebody and was unironically told "you can just be emotional support for sick people". Now that's a fulfilling volunteer activity and everyone who has the inclination to do it should, but as a matter of practicality: Does it come with a salary?

We are a long political fight away from people in industries affected by AI not feeling like their livelihoods are under attack. It would be better received, at least for me, if the AI guys would admit that under the system we have they're playing with a big heaping flamethrower in a vast ocean of gasoline.