Professorbigbody:
Not to mention how bad it is for the environment and for artists' careers. If anyone can make something "good enough" then what's the point of artists at all?
The carbon footprint is INSANE. The amount of energy taken up by AI is nearly that of the country of Japan.
In my opinion, AI should be used as a reference or a tool for human art. Not the final product
I actually disagree a lot with two things here!
Artists' careers are not in danger because of AI, for basically two reasons. One is that capitalism is the danger, that is because capitalism is the only system where a process becoming more efficient can be directly destructive for some people. And two, if your job *really* is threatened by AI, that means your job is not importand after all. WAIT! hear me out:
Im not saying that Artists are not importand (Im one ahah!). Im saying that, a lot of the time, what we mean when we use the word "Art" is really, just content. Simple-minded enough that having a human do it has really not much more, in terms of utility, than leaving it to the AI.
Many Artists dont really do more than mere mindless content creation. The criteria for this basically boils down to what are their intentions with their art.
It would be wrong, however, to say that we should abolish Artists. Instead what im saying is that we, artists need to be more vigilant, intelligent, and intentional with our art.
And also, this doesn't bring food to the table. Nobody will give you money to create a painting that criticises money.
Also, i have to point this out. "AI's footprint" is too vague, most AI models can run on your average computer! The reason OpenAI and other tech companies have such a high footprint is because they intentionally have developed models that are very inefficient. That is just an attempt to make the upfront costs of setting up a company with AI service so big that nobody else can join in that market. Effectively securing an oligopoly for these tech giants.
Edit:
For the first thing, its not very objective. Im basically describing the logic by which an observer might think of "Art", said observers are people who pay for it, for example.