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Those people are losers anyway. Most artists are basically insufferable, tranny brained faggots — "i'm important because Im an artist and you have to recognize that". Is that really what you want to support?

As I see it your argument is.... its going to discourage people from pursuing a craft for the wrong reasons and that's bad.

Sorry, AI actually makes art more authentic, no only for the reason I stated above, but because it also brings creation closer to the self for those who don't paint or draw. They can basically commission a work and even refine it to their imagining. The classic artist is far more distant from the self.

All this AI hate is just fuckimg dumb. It's a bunch of NPCs regurgitating talking points without really thinking through the existential relationship between the self and it's ability to create. AI enhances that, and doesn't otherwise prohibit classic methods.

Don't be a faggot. I spend hours a day writing and mixing music, not for you or anyone else. I don't need to alienate my works. I like making things and experimenting when doing it. I do it for me. AI isn't stopping me. Rather it helps me. It organizes sample banks. It assists in calculations and creating fx chains, etc.

If someone else wants to use AI to make a song, that's cool. Go for it. Maybe it will sound like shit, maybe it will be novel, maybe an accident will occur and one that gives us new ideas.

First, I want to thank you for recognizing the difference between having AI do everything for me, and using it as a tool, e.g. a calculator or file organizer, figuring out techniques, recommending I search particular banks or look at particular plugins for certain types of initial samples / sounds (I resample a lot) and other issues, including software bugs, to save me time. Other than file organization and searching (I have 20 million samples / loops, a myriad of vst synths and other instruments, and do design from scratch), use is sparse, but it does help at times.

Nonetheless, as to the novice, I think it could depend on the intelligence of that person. AI can be educational, much like having a teacher. "Hey gpt, what are some classic methods to create a house bass"?​ (The novice would spend more time watching a youtube video to get the same answer or worse tracking down a live producer). So if used right, it can facilitate learning. If not, then not. But the same can be said of most tools. We don't say someone is slop if they use a Phillips screw instead of a nail or glue. The flathead users can get fucked though.

I think the question raised by D implicitly is what is the motivation to create. My point is that AI does eliminate a lot of motivation that I find improper, motivation often leads men down bad roads, like a longing for fame or recognition. Those things are fine if given, but seeking them is a separate issue. The real motivation should be just to make shit.

With this in mind, I think AI eliminates markets in art, but also brings creation / art closer to the self. I can't draw at all. My wife paints, draws etc, hours a day. She makes art for her. If I need a picture, I'll use AI. I leave her to her thing. It's her work, not mine.

@Humpleupagus @deprecated_ii @wgiwf @Kazak
AI amplifies the quality of the user is a good perspective for individual use cases. If I thought I could use AI without atrophying my thinking circuits it would be to learn about things easier. I've had a bad reader's block for awhile.

It gets muddied by corporations shoving AI into everything though, and trying to use it as a magic tool to replace workers or amplify productivity. A whole lot of mess and proper slop to be criticized from that application.
I'd wager Mainframe AI dies like a dotcom bubbles, and its just motivated individuals using self-hosted LLMs in the future.

There are a lot of problems with AI. And the corporate control and censorship is probably the biggest issue. But I think you're right, that market collapses because they're operating above cost in the capital phase with no realistic plan for return.

I'm just not convinced motivation is a real problem. I think a lot people enjoy making art. It's not going away. For example, once everyone was able to afford what would have been a $20 million studio in the 1980s on their laptop for a few thousand dollars with simple gear and plugins, and the market was flooded with music, some of which is good, some not, people still made music despite saturation. And people will still learn to paint and draw or make music despite AI, because we're human. It's what we do.

And writers block is real. Unlike me, who uses AI to draft initial drafts of letters in my practice, I'm not sure how AI can be employed in a creative context re writing. Perhaps by not having it draft the underlying text, that would be dumb, but rather using it to explore themes, character development, and story line?

@Humpleupagus @wgiwf @Kazak nigger, nobody forced you to come in here and get all pissy. you haven't addressed the vast majority of what I've said, you just say NUH UH instead

why the fuck WOULD anyone struggle through, e.g., an electrical engineering degree legitimately if they can just cheat to get the paycheck? what is your answer to the massive deskilling that's happening right now across a bunch of industries? are you just going to deny it exists?

my points are rooted in basic human nature and irrefutable as a result, but you're sitting here arguing against them because you like having a slop slave and don't want to admit perhaps it is harmful to use it

@Humpleupagus @deprecated_ii @wgiwf @Kazak I have had ai do more to help me than any single artists total body of work ever has, and the ai didn't ask for a single cent, ai never left me in the lurch for a year or more, ai otherwise lied to me or was wrong at least as often as a regular human artist, but no human artist ever has helped me write code to enable autofire in a game that wasnt suited for it (peace walker)
I put in the hard work to create something, ai is right there along side me to help in real time
I hand that exact same hard work to an artist, 50% chance I never get anything back, another 50% of the remainder is ruined by incompetence

@deprecated_ii @Kazak @wgiwf This is something I've come to recognize too. I started making art with AI and the outcome was "good enough". I learned basic editing skills to fix errors and improve composition. Reprocessing the image at a higher resolution helps. But flaws always slip through. Most people might not notice, but I do, and it bothers me.
I thought I could train my own pixel-space DiT for generative upscaling, because starting with an image is an easier problem than generating an image from scratch. Three months of arxiv rabbitholes later and I can get the model to perfectly encode (overfit) a single image in a few minutes. Still a useless prototype right now.
Honestly I think that time would have been better spent learning to draw or learning Blender. I think a hybrid approach combining traditional skills with AI has merit. To use your metaphor, the helicopter dropped me off at the top of the mountain and now I'm trying to climb back down.