Okay, I'll just stop leading these with semi-veiled insults, how 'bout that?
But, anyway ...
If someone who has a really cool story in his head but no time to write a novel or learn how to draw can use AI and prompts to bring that idea into a form which can be shared with others, then that is good.
No, it isn't.
There is no idea good enough to justify sloppy execution. Besides, we already have a place for sharing "creative" ideas without effort. It's called Twitter.
But I think the argument is kind of academic because I don't think it will help people share these "ideas" because at the end of the day people with "really cool stories in their head" are not "creative", and AI isn't going to get that story out of their head anymore than a typewriter or a word processing program has been able to in the past. At the end of the day, you're advocating for a creativity based on "ideas" while I'm advocating for a creativity based on the "creative process." The thing is that not all ideas are good; the creative process, because it requires effort, makes the artist think "is this idea worth the effort". Therefore, bad ideas are winnowed out.
But even if the "real cool story" is actually a "real cool story", it still is hurt by the AI process, because there's more to a story than just the story. AI is good at academic essays because you're supposed to sound like a boring fuck for those; but storytelling is as much about the how the story is told as it is the story itself.
Therefore, a person who thinks they are creative because they have "creative ideas" will probably get bored very quickly because they have no training as to which of their creative ideas are bad and not worth actually creating for real, so most of their output will be, and I'll be generous, mediocre at best, without the saving throw of having really good technique to bolster a weak premise, while the rare actually good idea will also be hampered by a lack of good technique, reducing it to also overall mediocre as well. This person may have a bit of initial success, due to the pure novelty of it all, but eventually this will wear off, and the eventual response to this person's "art" will be audience boredom due to the sheer mediocrity of it all, leading to boredom on the part of the creative, and the abandonment of the whole thing.
Or, put it another way, I basically have a testable hypothesis, even if we are dealing with something as subjective as "is the art good or bad?". If I'm right, AI art doesn't matter, and arguing the ethics of art scraping is beside the point. If I'm wrong, well, then my whole argument is beside the point, but AI still might fail because you lose your argument about the ethics of it all.
Also, I think you should be able to mark your own comments as spam. I got it this time, though!
Okay, I'll just stop leading these with semi-veiled insults, how 'bout that?
But, anyway ...
No, it isn't.
There is no idea good enough to justify sloppy execution. Besides, we already have a place for sharing "creative" ideas without effort. It's called Twitter.
But I think the argument is kind of academic because I don't think it will help people share these "ideas" because at the end of the day people with "really cool stories in their head" are not "creative", and AI isn't going to get that story out of their head anymore than a typewriter or a word processing program has been able to in the past. At the end of the day, you're advocating for a creativity based on "ideas" while I'm advocating for a creativity based on the "creative process." The thing is that not all ideas are good; the creative process, because it requires effort, makes the artist think "is this idea worth the effort". Therefore, bad ideas are winnowed out.
But even if the "real cool story" is actually a "real cool story", it still is hurt by the AI process, because there's more to a story than just the story. AI is good at academic essays because you're supposed to sound like a boring fuck for those; but storytelling is as much about the how the story is told as it is the story itself.
Therefore, a person who thinks they are creative because they have "creative ideas" will probably get bored very quickly because they have no training as to which of their creative ideas are bad and not worth actually creating for real, so most of their output will be, and I'll be generous, mediocre at best, without the saving throw of having really good technique to bolster a weak premise, while the rare actually good idea will also be hampered by a lack of good technique, reducing it to also overall mediocre as well. This person may have a bit of initial success, due to the pure novelty of it all, but eventually this will wear off, and the eventual response to this person's "art" will be audience boredom due to the sheer mediocrity of it all, leading to boredom on the part of the creative, and the abandonment of the whole thing.
Or, put it another way, I basically have a testable hypothesis, even if we are dealing with something as subjective as "is the art good or bad?". If I'm right, AI art doesn't matter, and arguing the ethics of art scraping is beside the point. If I'm wrong, well, then my whole argument is beside the point, but AI still might fail because you lose your argument about the ethics of it all.
Also, I think you should be able to mark your own comments as spam. I got it this time, though!