Call me a Luddite but I don't want these videos hitting my retinas.
There should be an opt out from being subjected to AI content.
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#922This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
I disagree. I think this is going to empower creatives like never before. Filmmaking currently takes a huge amount of time and money. Countless would be filmmakers are relegated to making 30 second tiktoks because that's all they can afford to do. This could change all that.
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#923What happens when humanity stops generating new content/recording new findings/knowledge etc ? are at a place where whatever we had is enough knowledge for AI takeover? or we are heading towards a skynet-y feature
As a counterpoint, i don't think that the average person has stopped taking pictures just because image generation models exists. Nor have people stopped pursuing other hobbies impacted by AI. We don't go to museums to look at AI art that was created in 10 seconds and I doubt culture will shift to a point where that's common place. Human content will still be created, and we will probably see the general quality of that content increase as a result of foundational models. Content creation is taking whats in the mind and translating it into the physical/digital realm. With better AI, this translation becomes easier for a lot of fields and you no longer have to master the use devices to make your art quality. However, everyone can agree that prompt based generation is a lot less satisfying than making content from scratch. It feels more akin to a google search than a satisfying creative process. Those who are passionate and talented will continue to pursue their physical medium because of this.
The monetary value of generic stock content will surely drop and won't be created by professionals anymore. However, that doesn't mean people stop taking pictures of their dog just because they can get midjourney to generate the same thing. Creation for the sake of creation will continue. AI companies will initially reap in a lot of the $ value that used to go to the creators of stock content, but when open source models reach parity the masses will be able to make what's in their mind a reality as casual creators. Hobbyists will still exist and those that become truly great will still rise to notoriety.
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#924Watching these made me think, I'm going to want to go to the theatre a lot more in the future and see fellow humans in plays, lectures and concerts. Such achievements in technology must lead to cultural change. Look at how popular vinyl has become, why not theatre again.
The vinyl narrative is so whack. https://www.riaa.com/u-s-sales-database/ At its peak, Inflation adjusted Vinyl Sales was $1.4billion in 1979. Then forward to the lowest sales in 2009 at $3.4million. So Vinyl has been so popular it grew to $8.5m by 2021. That is just nostalgia, not cultural change pushed by the dystopia of AI.
> The vinyl narrative is so whack.
"Revenues for the LP/EP format were $1.2B in 2022 and accounted for 7.7% of total revenue of $15.9B for all selected formats for the year"
Adjusted to inflation.
It's my understanding that LP/EP is vinyl as well. Not Just vinyl single.
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#925This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
take shakespeare, he borrowed from so many and yet most people
don’t know
a few examples
Plutarch's Lives
Holinshed's Chronicles
Ovid's Metamorphoses
good artist copy, great artist steal
so on and worth
i, for one, welcome these creative machines slurping all that was created!
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#926This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
Let's go beyond the philosophical. Which sources would you expect the "woman walks through Tokyo" video to attribute?
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#927This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
Today, only a highly privileged slice of the population can make a living making art. Nearly everyone who enjoys making art can't make a living off of it, and even the vast majority of people trying to do it full time still can't make ends meet (hence the cliche of the starving artist). But everyone can make art as a hobby if they'd like, that's what almost all artists do, and that will continue to be true as AI advances.
So I don't see AI art as changing careers much. Even if AI fully replaces human artists, all that means is the 0.1% of people who make a career off their art will have to join the rest of us 99.9% who only do art for the fun of it.
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#928This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
Proactively splitting up the menial tasks so that everyone is doing a little bit, inasmuch as they are able to, for a few hours a day, a few days a week, and getting paid a full-living wage for it seems like the way to go. Or, everyone pulls a Xiu Xiang from Rainbows End and goes back to high school.
The main obstacle to this is the pride and ego of the people who've "made it" up until now. Let go. Let society have nice things, even if you have to reinvent yourself. I don't think that creativity is endangered; art, uh, finds a way.
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#929This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
We are all standing on the shoulders of giants, whose existence and names we will never know or acknowledge. The way these models are creative is the same way humans are. The artist that painted Mona Lisa didn't credit any of the influences and inspirations that they had. Just as cameras made many artists redundant, so too will every other new tool, and not just artist but pretty much every job. But there are still p…
I agree and actually think the camera was definitely more disruptive to artists than this AI stuff, and somehow the camera didn’t kill artists.
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#930This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
Why is the machine monstrous?