I mean, It's bad art and all but it's here to stay, maybe this will make it harder for weirdos making a living off of drawing bad art i couldn't care less.
I mean, It's bad art and all but it's here to stay, maybe this will make it harder for weirdos making a living off of drawing bad art i couldn't care less.
My friend is a professional artist, I'm a professional writer. Both of us are getting paid less and less for our labor. This is not good.
I find it complicated because like, sometimes people lose their jobs to progress, tons of people would lose their jobs if we moved away from fossil fuel production but that's still good and necessary. AI art is cool and fun and wouldn't be a problem if not for capitalism, but its main use now is/is going to be paying workers less and cutting entire positions once held by real actual people. Not to mention the AI doesn't really create art, you need to feed it art already on the internet for the algorithm to do its thing, so in a way its stealing everyone's labor to then take away their labor. (I also think it might lead to a more homogenized media scene, due to popular things already having a lot of art, leading them to be made easier and better into a self fulfilling prophecy)
I dunno, its complicated and I'm too close to it. Sorry to ramble.
There's nothing all that new about what will happen (if it doesn't fizzle out), technology has advanced before. What's threatened isn't the art world with all it's mysticism and tax evasion, but the current shape of what you might call the commodity visual arts industry; gig-economy commission stuff, but probably even moreso stuff like graphic design in advertising. That whole sector will realign around the new socially necessary labour-time and division of labour involved in producing certain visual outputs. As always with capitalism, that process will screw over some of the workers in that industry just like it has done with scribes, typesetters, draftsmen, and a thousand other trades.
The way that existing art is stolen and reused in the process is somewhat new though, in just how much it alienates art from artist. At least with things like stock photography libraries there is a theoretical system of royalties and licensing to give the actual creator some kind of credit/compensation. I'm sure there will be new additions to copyright/trademark/IP law, but only in service to those capitalists best able to lobby for and profit from them. Even an ideal system, e.g. where inclusion in the training data is voluntary and the AI tools find ways to asign credit through to the works drawn from, still sounds hellworld and would probably lead to the data getting filled with SEO-hacked garbage trying to farm the system.