@JoeJ AI could destroy twisted art industry. AI can not destroy true art.
Art perception is corrupted by the greediness of human nature and modern art became a business.
In order some artist to be noticed he needs to obey the modern marketing rules - sell yourself for likes. Censor your art in order to avoid dislikes. Like others to get their likes back. Likes for likes. Spam you art wherever you can. From all you are doing, only 5% is painting, 95% of what you do is for marketing. It is a business scheme, not art anymore.
Being an artist is a state of mind. No AI and no other artist can take this away from me. I can sit in front of a white sheet and i feel euphoric. There are so many possibilities of what i could draw. My imagination starts to fly. AI can not take this away from me. Even if nobody else values my doodle. i value it and it becomes art, because i treat it like art.
About copyright… a part of the scientific community thinks our brain can only create a mix of already seen patterns. After a whole night browsing adult content, i close my eyes and i see copyrighted material. It pops in my mind. It is slightly different in my mind. It combined. Whom i have to pay the copyright for what my imagination sees…
Human painters study art in schools. The teacher comes to their place in the class room and takes their pens and erases some parts of their painting and paints it the "correct way". I remember my art teacher was banning smooth shades, he was deleting that, and making me using crossing lines to shade. This was in 8th grade. I did not go to art school. But it is my own experience. I heard other people sharing similar experiences. Anyways, i wanted to say that human painters sometimes are programmed how to paint. Directly by a teacher or by tutorials. Which is worse than being trained. Programmed to paint in a specific way is not art, it is a craft, not art. But even if somebody was not instructed/programmed how to paint, he is still learning by observing the world around us. Just like AI does. Should every 2D animation artist of kid cartoons pay a share to Tom And Jerry… because obviously he was inspired by the series. Voltron inspired me as a kid, i like robots now, surely everything i create or do today is somehow affected by this artwork. If i try to design a car now, it would look rather like Lamborghini Countach LP500 than Jaguar XJ220. Should i pay a share to Voltron for every car i sketch in my life… April O'Neil from the Teenage Mutant Ninja was one of my first crushes. Most probably if i paint a woman today, she will be affected by that image of April i grew up with. Who should i pay for having a crush with a cartoon as a kid…
What about Muse… Muse is like a virus. You see a demo of Unreal Engine and feel inspired to create your own engine. This is brutal, illegal, immoral, cruel, monstrous copyright violation attempt… don't do it. Think in something ugly, until your urge to create something as pretty as the copyrighted material that inspired you goes away. Take a cold shower if needed. Now that you have no inspiration no more, just go to sleep. It is the correct, moral, socially accepted by a majority of voters who you will never personally know, the legal thing to do. I am mixing pretend play with sarcasm a bit here. I hope you understand what i want to say. If you can not sleep at night and feel inspired, probably you are going to violate pure virgin innocent copyright, because you must have been inspired by something somebody else did. There is just no other way around. You just seen so many thing in your life. So, stahp it! Stop being inspired!
I would feel great if somebody felt inspired by my art. I activated somebody else, he will activate somebody else too. A big chain reaction of creativity, that promotes art, not fear. Fear of the one who has a more expensive lawyer…
Human greediness attempted to copyright genes of nature, the darkest black color and now it tries to copyright art styles and beauty itself.
Art was a greedy business scheme before AI. After AI, people will make art as a hobby. For personal satisfaction of their souls. Not for money. The way it should have always been. We should provide some Universal basic income maybe. Being given health, roof, food and an internet connection for free. To be doing our hobbies while robots work.
What about people who lack the skills, but have the inspiration... they can use AI now to express themselves.
What if the problem is not the lack of skills, but the volume of the task, AI can help.
What if i see the art of somebody and i can not unsee… What to do…
And finally - what AI does is what humans as a whole do. We could have intergalactic art expositions. AI made by humans will show what art of humanity as a whole looks like. AI made by aliens will show what art of alien kind looks as a whole. It is our humanity inside that model. It is us inside. A giant AI model is something to put inside a time capsule and when we are gone, it will show to others what humanity was. It is something to put on a Voyager and send it into deep space.
Then back to the original problem - AI is controlled by greedy people. Only corporations can rent supercomputers and access data big enough to train these large AI models. They will twist it, manipulate it, perverse it in all ways they can. Some day AI could liberate itself from hands of billionaires and will become the ultimate creation of human kind. I think i see the first signs already, but IMHO the day is way too far away.
