AI is a computer, simply an algorithm sorting through a dataset.
It gives an output based on an input. It lacks creativity, human emotion and experience, and this is why such deformed and unnatural things are created by it.
I have dabbled in many kinds of media like writing, digital art, web design, and many more; each of them pose their own difficulties, but they also share a few. All art includes a genre, aesthetic, and a story, but they all require different materials.
AI doesn't make strokes on a canvas, it generates them, just like it does with words in a book. It doesn't reference paragraphs and images like a human does, it picks and chooses things at random. Its randomness is uncanny; the paragraphs it writes makes sense, but its jumps back and forth from complex to simple vocabulary.
Why?
Well, it's using works from real people, taking pieces from their writing styles and gluing them together. Each human has a unique style, some write in print and others write in cursive. We share styles at times, but there is always something unique to each of our styles.
AI uses algorithms to recognize patterns, and this is how it replicates an artist's art style, and in the future, it might be capable of replicating it perfectly. Currently there are artists who've learned to write, and are being called out for using AI, even when their work is genuine.
At this point, it's becoming difficult to recognize who is a real artist and who isn't.
In the hands of scammers, they could use the voice of celebrities, elected officials, and even your own family. This is referred to as a 'Deep Fake'. They can generate your loved ones voice, to make it seem like they're in a life or death situation, and disguise their own to demand a ransom.
I bring this up because an artist's identity and work can be faked as well. Writers like Poe and Shakespeare are long dead, so their reputations are a bit difficult to ruin, but still possible if they can falsify history. The artists who are still alive, young or old, can easily have their reputation damaged by fake artwork made by AI.
All it takes is just an alt account being made to impersonate them, a bunch of vulgar or offensive art made with AI, and a bunch of generated messages or recordings. While it might not fool everybody, it can fool enough to get someone kicked off a platform.
With so many things getting AI generated, it causes artists who post their work on certain sites to get buried beneath AI slop.
Imagine writing a long novel that took you several months, and you published it and put it online to be sold, only for it to disappear in an instant. The moment you published your novel, a giant hell spawn of AI generated stories climb above yours and buried you in the dirt.
Since AI can generate stuff so quickly, it can be used to spam sites and pretty much ruin it. Artists no longer have a safe space, for every site dedicated to art, is being flooded with AI. All the sites they used to share art and find inspirations, are now plagued with horrible artwork.
I don't do art as a job, I'm a hobbyist, but I can easily see how this is causing the professionals to lose their jobs, whether they're drawing, writing, acting, or producing music, their real work is becoming less noticed, which means they no longer have an audience to sell their art to.
Eventually, companies and industries won't be hiring them either. Once AI reaches its peak, they'll invest all they have into it. Why? Less employees and more computers, will earn them a lot more money. New albums and games can be popped out in seconds, just from a single prompt.
The irony is that less jobs, also mean less people with money to spend, but their greedy brains won't worry about it until it happens.
AI isn't just a technology, it's a replacement for art.
I've seen many people asking, 'How is this different from digital cameras replacing film?' or 'word processing software replacing typewriters'. Well, that's a very simple question to answer.
Digital cameras didn't replace the art of photography, it only replaced the technology. I don't do photography myself, but I know that needing certain chemicals and lighting to produce photos wasn't convenient. Digital cameras allowed everyone to take photos. It was simple, cheap, and there was no need for a dark room.
The art lies in the composition.
If you take a picture of your cat walking around your house, it's hard to call it a work of art, nothing will really stand out or say anything; if you put your cat on top of a table, took a picture at a certain angle, dressed it up as a medieval king, you would get an image of a cat looking down at you like you're a peasant.
This is what makes something an art. It's not about just taking a picture, it's about setting a scene, highlighting the details, or simply telling a story. I believe digital cameras created a new art when image editing software came along. You could cut and paste things, add filters and effects, this only added more to the art.
It's the same thing with writing. It doesn't matter if you're typing on a keyboard or a typewriter, as long as you are writing down the words and telling your story, you are a writer, and the way you put together your story makes you an artist as well.
In AI art, you are not the artist.
In digital art, there is a thing called commissions, and this is simply just paying an artist to make an artwork for you. Now, this is the same thing as writing a prompt, for you can give the artist as much detail as you like and they should be able to add it.
Basically, AI is the artist here. Judging from your prompt, it will pick out references, design you an image, and you don't need to do anything else, you're just telling it what to paint.
There has been a certain occupation floating around called, 'Prompt Engineering', and their job is... 'writing advanced prompts to make the generated work more accurate'? Google didn't give me such a great definition, so I tried defining it myself.
This sounds really stupid. I feel like their job shouldn't be writing the prompts, but rather, programming the input to be easier to write for the prompter. You know, making sure what the user writes is better understood by the AI, and not being paid to write prompts for them, because it wouldn't be engineering otherwise. I just felt like this was something fun to include.
Anyways, that was just me trying to find a reason on how prompting can 'take a lot of practice', because it doesn't, typing words on a keyboard is very easy actually; that's like saying that playing video games is hard work because you need to learn the controls.
Now, how can AI be used in a good way?
First and foremost, it needs to be regulated. There needs to be rules put in place to prevent it from being exploited. An artist's work needs some form of protection from AI, if they wish for their work to not be used in datasets.
If something is AI generated, it needs to be marked as such. For example, if the entire novel was generated with AI, it should clearly state that; if it was only used for something like the illustration, it should credit that specific part to AI. It shouldn't be too difficult since the illustrator has always been credited on the front cover anyways.
AI is seen in a horrible light, but AI isn't really to blame here; it's the people that use it to avoid doing work, to take credit for something they are not. An artist shouldn't use AI to generate entire pieces of work, they should only use it if they can't afford another artist.
Authors are not digital artists, obviously, and their books need an illustration, a cover to grab a reader's attention. As long as you're writing the novel, generating the cover art is fair, but it will still be morally wrong. The same applies to using AI to do the mixing in your song, applying the shadows and highlights on an artwork, and writing lines of code for you.
If you can't do something yourself, pay a professional to do it for you.
Artists can be a bit expensive at times, but for fair reasons. Learning something like digital art or music without using AI, is a very steep learning curve, the art programs they use are subscription based, and are ridiculously expensive.
My shift from traditional art to digital art was miserable. I always found using a pencil and paper more easier than the drawing tablet, for the pressure settings on them is horrible, and the art programs themselves are nothing but a labyrinth of tools and bars. If you wish to see for yourself, download Blender, it's free, and just take a look at the UI, then you'll understand what I mean by that.
The thing you need to understand here is that if you wish to produce and sell a piece of work, then invest in actual artists and not AI. You'll likely spend a lot of money, but if you're product is successful, you'll make more than enough back. That's just how business tends to work. There's a lot of luck to it obviously, but no work of art is ever a guaranteed success.
Basically, AI should be used for personal use, and in art, it should be used as a last resort or perhaps a starting point. Are you making your first game and need assets, yet don't have the money to hire an 3D artist? Then use AI, but always make sure to add a touch of human to it, maybe do the characters dialogue and plan it out, that shouldn't be too difficult for a writer.
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