Ricki Yasha TarrJan 3, 2025

Okay, I have a Star Trek theory. You know how all Star Trek characters are obsessed with 20th century or earlier art? The reason is AI, at some point there are no people making actual art, since AI can't create anything, it just recycles stuff that it knows over and over. There were years and years where no new art was created, so art never moves forward.

OR

I'm high.

Show threadBill Hooker
@RickiTarr It's a cool theory. I could easily imagine decades and decades in the near future in which every opportunity to make a living as an artist has been destroyed by AI, so unless you're into underground stuff you'd have to look back to the 20th century and before to get real art made by real humans.
Jan 3, 2025 at 3:58amWeb
Show threadRicki Yasha TarrJan 3, 2025
@sennoma Omg Underground Art scene sounds awesome
Show threadsahqonJan 3, 2025

@sennoma @RickiTarr I don't think getting rid of professional artists will do much anything about art being made. People make art all the time for no other reason than that they want to fuck around with stuff.

What could destroy art is if people no longer have the time to make it (resources will always be found). Whether it's taking away free time or by sitting everybody down to get stuff beamed at them.

Show threadRicki Yasha TarrJan 3, 2025
@sahqon @sennoma Humans don't stop making art, for sure, but it can get lost or buried.
Show threadsahqonJan 3, 2025
@RickiTarr @sennoma Some of it always goes that way. But it's not necessarily a bad thing either. I think getting exposed to the absolute best art the most talented few people all the world around can come up with is one of the reasons art is starting to die out. Why would you paint something when you can see how it's "supposed to be done" and know you'll never be able to get that way? It's only in the very recent years that this is an issue, a few decades ago you could get some stuff over in magazines and before that, you could maybe visit some galleries or cathedrals and see some stuff. If you had a lot of money, you could visit more of those. But for the majority, art was what local people around them could come up with, and that was, for quite a lot of them, very achievable, so they would happily try and make some themselves. They didn't have access to the great painters, so painting some stuff on their walls was nice. They couldn't listen to the best musicians, so whatever the local band played was nice. The greatest things they ever came across were achievable and could be improved upon. That's something we lost already, and I'm not sure AI won't actually help with it, against all odds: handmade is already often preferred to perfect, and once you can't tell perfect from AI, it might become even more desirable, who knows.
Show threadeconadsJan 4, 2025
@sahqon @RickiTarr @sennoma na, if you like making art you like the process. If you're only doing it for recognition or money then you'll most likely not last long. Look at how many artists could make a much better living doing other things - creation is a basic human drive and a route to fulfillment. You get good because you're interested, you aren't interested because you're good. "Talent" is mostly bullshit, you are only interested enough to practice enough to become good.