SvenG<p><span>As my timeline is overflowing again with supposedly </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/artist" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artist</a><span> statements on how they fear </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/AI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a><span> would supersede them.<br>Do you really value your own work that low? Is it so </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/generic" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#generic</a><span> that an AI could replace you anytime? If that truly and actually is the case, probably </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/arts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arts</a><span> aren't the right thing for you </span>:trollface:<span><br><br>But seriously, people that </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/fearmonger" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fearmonger</a><span> over AI replacing artists seem to neither understand how AI works, nor creative processes.<br>What we call AI has nothing to do with </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/creativity" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#creativity</a><span>, let alone intelligence or smartness. It just "knows" how certain colours and colour combinations are preferred, how certain word combinations get more positive or more negative feedback etc. Because some person or algorithm put those values in its database. Basically anything that can be evaluated by number values of sorts. It does not </span><b><span>understand</span></b><span> how and why, it only "knows", because it's trained for that.<br><br>Actual creative processes on the other hand aren't really about the result itself. They're literally about the process, about putting your </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/emotions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#emotions</a><span> into your work, for the better or worse, thinking about and feeling what you want to express, not about what may be pleasing to others, that's just a convenient byproduct more often than not.<br>And there'll always be people that are able to distinguish between a piece of art with blood, sweat, and tears of the creator and something that is generated for the sole purpose of pleasing people. I personally don't mind the latter being created by a machine and I'll also happily consume it if it triggers the right things for me, but that is what at best probably could be classified as </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/craftsmanship" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#craftsmanship</a><span>, the implementation of </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/rules" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rules</a><span> and </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/techniques" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#techniques</a><span>, not </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/art" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a><span>.<br><br>One very widely accepted definition of art is </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/irritation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#irritation</a><span>, the (more or less) deliberate violation of </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/conventions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conventions</a><span> and rules while </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/conforming" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conforming</a><span> to others. A machine - per definition - cannot do that. It has to be made a rule to break a specific rule, which leads the whole concept of rule-breaking </span><i><span>ad absurdum</span></i><span>, PLUS it skips the whole creative process.<br>The one thing AI </span><b><span>can</span></b><span> take away from artists however is a(n easy) way to generate </span><a href="https://social.simulacrum-emporium.eu/tags/funds" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#funds</a><span> for making art. This indeed is something that should IMO be up for debate on a broad basis as I don't see any easy or immediate solution to that but it likely has to be addressed by society as a whole.<br><br>TL;DR: A machine cannot create or replace art. These claims are just nonsense.</span></p>