I want AI to help me figure things out. Not make things up for me.
Apple is clearly looking at the figuring out part - a lot of useful features were presented (albeit with a lot of future tense in the statements). A big plus that it's being done in a private context.
But it's the made up art where everyone (rightly) focuses their attention. Given the huge number of creative people using Apple products, taking away our collective imagination feels like a huge misstep.
@chockenberry Not sure how this is different to the AI musicians in GarageBand. Or GitHub copilot.
Professionals might sneer at the output of a generative model. But for amateur it’s empowering.
@clarko @chockenberry From an artist’s perspective, generative AI (GAI) is not empowering, it’s disempowering and causes devaluation of something important to us.
Empowerment happens when you give people the tools to create for themselves. GAI takes away agency and turns the artistic process into just getting a picture, or getting some music, or getting a document. It turns art into just content to be consumed, where it’s being done for you. You cannot create that again without the GAI. It creates dependence and stifles any interest in the process, in the mechanics and theory, in fostering your own style and vision.
Professionals do not sneer at GAI, we look on it in horror as it strips away the craft that we love and turns the work into junk for consumption. As it robs people of the experience and the drive to make something that is uniquely theirs. As it robs them of understanding the why and how of expression.
Craig Hockenberry
Clarko
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