I'm a musician, dudes come up to me like listen to this song I made, and it's obviously suno...
I call them out on it and they're like mumble mumble.
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It's also time. People want to create but learning practising. Getting through the "I suck" stage is rough.
Been in mine for several decades now.
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I call them no talent ass clowns.
That's what they are.
Desired isn't the same thing as important.
People looking for a get rich quick scheme. Can’t afford to live otherwise.
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There's "skills," and then there's innate talent, and then there's practice. Anyone who embraces AI art clearly doesn't have the innate talent to recognize it's crap, and their rabid eagerness to jump on the latest trend implies they probably doesn't have the patience required for practice either.
Not that music and art classes and exposure aren't important, but 12 years of mandatory gym classes definitely didn't turn me into an athlete (if anything, it made me hate physical activity. Maybe if we had gone on hikes instead of playing dodgeball...)
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Im not very artistic but I like singing in a choir. Im glad I had at least some exposure to music even though I can't read a lick and have a hard time finding pitch from a piano. give me a good section anchor and some solfage and im good.
I think not everyone who wants to be artistic can be. I sort of hear music composition in my head. But despite playing a musical instrument all through college, I could never play anything by ear. And memorizing music was really hard. So if AI could get what I hear in my head out, that would be astounding. It can't yet, but you get my point. I also have poor fine motor skill, so drawing is out. Even with a computer and mouse it just is too hard. That said, I think what this really says is that people have a desire to consume more art, and they are willing to use AI to get it.
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Apart from graphic design and advertising, art is difficult and risky for billionaires to profit off of. Human artists are notoriously flaky and difficult to work with. This is one reason Larry Ellison bought WB.
Billionaires want public schools to turn out people who are as close to robots as possible. We all know they'd prefer actual robots, but that's not happening anytime soon, regardless of all the hype. So, public schools drop anything not reliably connected to billionaires profits. They're thrilled at the prospect of getting rid of human artists.
People don't go to RISD to learn to be an artist, they go for the connections.
Eh. I don’t think it says anything at all about their desire to be an artist. I think it says a lot more about their:
- greed (desire to be paid, regardless of what they’re being paid for)
- cheapness (not wanting to pay a proper artist)
- antisocial (as in: counter to the ethos of social collaboration; not as in “I want to be a potato today”) tendencies
- low ethical standards (not caring that the training sets for all of this are built almost exclusively from stolen contracts)
- self aggrandizement / narcissism (claiming aptitude and credit in a domain that you don’t actually have any skill in, but pretending you do anyways)
I don’t think wanting or not wanting to be able to do art is a major aspect of this at all. It’s largely about wanting the money and, sometimes, the recognition, without doing any of the work it normally takes for humans to get to that point of expertise.