In the short time since I was last here, we have seen an emergence of 'AI Art'. A very relevant subject for visual creatives now
Not so long ago, we used to speculate about this... about how the times are changing. Clients used to joke with me; Would we would soon be replaced in our job...?!
Recently, a lot of supermarket workers (for one everyday example) have been replaced. And not many people seem to notice or care!
But who could've imagined not so long ago? We certainly live in a very quickly changing environment.
Who is going to keep up...?
Back to the original question... I used to respond that, it would take a long time to replace true creativity or visual art. But now it would seem that I misjudged the timeline!
It will ofcourse take some time for machines to replace tattoo artists....but as I write these words, visual artists already seem to be being quickly replaced. We live in a digital world, and the science fiction is becoming fact...much quicker than most of us might have predicted a few years ago.
It leaves me a bit perplexed, for I admit that I really appreciate some of the A.I 'art' that I see. It is definitely a valid, and interestiong paradigm, or 'medium'.
The question is - as many are exploring now - is it 'right'?
Well, it's already too late to reverse the trend. How to make peace?...or how to be 'better' than said 'intelligence'? (better described as machine learning, or interpretation)
It's a very interesting question. Which more than anything, asks...what is it to be human?
In the concept of the Turin test for example, what is it that seperates us? for the turin test has already been completely broken. And quantum computing, for example, has not even started yet...
So what's next?
That perhaps links to the 'cognitive disonance' of mankind, and how most won't realise, until it's 'too late'.
I think there are answers here, but none of them obvious, or easy.
'ART' is supposedly, the expression of the individual. But when that expression becomes a machine, or an algorythym....what then....? And how do we feel when those algorythyms are just as pleasing visually or 'artistically', as a lot of the human art? how interesting!
I'd argue that this changes everything, even if it's uncomfortable for us.
I think that AI provides us exciting windows into what is possible - it can really stimulate our imaginations. And I think the best use of it is in combination with human editing...we can refine the generations, or go back and forth with the results. We will see in the next few years some really cool ways in which the two opposites become one. Which is also ofcourse terrifying! But AI isn't going anywhere - Pandora's box has been opened, and we have to try to embrace it in some way, and find the balance (like people have had to throughout history with many inventions).
I read somewhere that AI will be the 'last invention' of man, aha. In many ways, they might be right. For now I'll hold on to some optimism and hope that the technology (beyond the art world) isn't dominated by those who wish to control and enslave
"It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them."
Peace and love ~




(Generations by moi, using Midjourney)
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