Silent extinction rule
Silent extinction rule
If a computer can create art better than you, maybe you’re a bad artist?
I don’t get this discussion at all. The internal combustion engine did away with horses. Do we mourn horses? Excavators replaced people with shovels, electric computers replaced their human predecessors, even alarm clocks replaced humans. Why do people who splatter paint on canvas think they deserve special treatment?
a lot of people are starting think of artists as irrelevant
I’ve thought that since childhood. I’m interested in the art. The pretty pictures, the nice music. Why should I care if a human or AI made it?
The only thing we need humans for (for now) is innovation. But then, listen to the billboard top 100 and tell me where you find innovation throughout these human artists. Take me to an art gallery and tell me how “I threw my brush at the canvas” has a right to exist next to “I threw my palette at the canvas” and “I throw a bucket of paint against the canvas”. Inform me how <DC movie number 28> differs meaningfully from number 27.
I think you might have a poor understanding of what art actually is or how it gets made. Sure there are some artists throwing random shit at a canvas, but there are significantly more that spend decades working their ass off perfecting their skills. The latter rarely get recognized for their work and aren’t making it on the top 100 lists, and AI is making it infinitely harder for them to be seen.
Also, AI would not exist without human artists creating the artworks that AI is trained on.