He captures my experience well - essentially there is a kind of subconscious, emotional "let down" when you like something, then later realize it's AI. I think, for me, it's related to the realization that there was an opportunity cost. This may have stunted the author's creativity, or overshadowed someone else's. At the same time, AI is only able to create things like this because it ingested millennia of human creativity. Sometimes it feels like we're headed towards a kind of stopping point... like the line chart of content creation by humans has already peaked, and is declining, but the paired line of AI content creation is approaching infinity. Maybe the singularity isn't as violent or physically destructive as we think. Reminds me of "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke.
I saw this like five minutes after I posted this and I was grumpy. I, too, have that same little "let down" and I feel like I might write another thing to work through that because it doesn't feel...rational?
The idea that "creation by humans has already peaked, and is declining" is something I feel as well. I do however think there's going to be a place for differentiation and human creativity so that we don't end up in this ouroboros of a doom spiral.
The Oatmeal just did a big riff on this, too: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
He captures my experience well - essentially there is a kind of subconscious, emotional "let down" when you like something, then later realize it's AI. I think, for me, it's related to the realization that there was an opportunity cost. This may have stunted the author's creativity, or overshadowed someone else's. At the same time, AI is only able to create things like this because it ingested millennia of human creativity. Sometimes it feels like we're headed towards a kind of stopping point... like the line chart of content creation by humans has already peaked, and is declining, but the paired line of AI content creation is approaching infinity. Maybe the singularity isn't as violent or physically destructive as we think. Reminds me of "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke.
I saw this like five minutes after I posted this and I was grumpy. I, too, have that same little "let down" and I feel like I might write another thing to work through that because it doesn't feel...rational?
The idea that "creation by humans has already peaked, and is declining" is something I feel as well. I do however think there's going to be a place for differentiation and human creativity so that we don't end up in this ouroboros of a doom spiral.