I pursued a random shower thought about that's exactly what the title says and did some further readings on the matter.
Here are some key points that I reflected on:
The perception of value more important than reality and this applies to AI Generated Content
There's a reason why creators don't specifically highlight or "forget' to include that they used AI assist in the description. It's because organic content feels more natural. There's still a market for purely AI generated content but it becomes saturated quickly because if everyone can do the same special thing, then no one gets to be special at doing the same thing.
I think people wouldn't want to pay premium to consume content that's generated by AI but it becomes palatable if production was hybrid between human mind x AI.
Content creators that become famous for having no AI assist or minimal AI assist earned to be at the peak.
Imagine the landscape where attention is the currency and every account is out to offer a product to get your attention. Trying to do things old school like handcrafting stuff, or livestreaming a skill is tough. Let's be realistic, how many streamers actually survive long enough to monetize their content? It's already a content between other streamers then what about adding AI content that could also take away live viewers from others.
You're competing with machines that respond to prompts in seconds to splurge out near novel scenarios on the fly. You're mostly marketing you, and what exactly is it that's special about you that you should be confident about?
It's storytellers that will thrive.
Art in any age throughout history gets noticed because of the backstory. The Mona Lisa would probably not be as popular as it is now if nobody knew how it came to be. Because if we're just talking about skill in depicting realism, there are countless paintings out there from unknown artist throughout the ages that show peak craftsmanship but the artists weren't famous when they were alive. But due to their lives retold, the value of their works tend to rise posthumous.
If you're still alive retelling your art journey and it sells, you got it. It still applies today but expect the next generation would have it harder due to how algorithms control visibility and you have to learn how to play the AI algorithm game to get somewhere.
Trying to prove your content isn't AI will be a norm.
I've seen artists I knew for years before AI was a thing get accused of using AI generated content. Some of them incorporated AI into their process but that's a different story. For some that stuck with their craft and just refined their style to new heights, they struggle now because people aren't trained to spot the differences with how good AI generated content is now.
Entertainment where it requires a display of empathy, social connection, and anything depicting human qualities will still sell.
This includes variety shows, gag shows, and anything that caters to a market of audience that want to escape machine generated content. No matter how good the chatbot answers all your queries, it can't provide the human connection you'd want. To rely on chatbots for connection seems like the beginning stages of pathology.
I like to imagine the future now.
Thanks for your time.
It is definitely going to be a struggle if you're creating content to get noticed/want to make money from it. If you're creating content because it's fun and the attention is a bonus then it doesn't matter.
I don't think viewers would consider intent behind the production as the first thing that comes to mind. I have a bias that the people creating content regularly are doing it for monetary reasons which happen to be doing what they love. But I know there are people that don't actually do art for money and just like doing it and still get mixed in the sea of algorithms.
I was barely taking the viewer into consideration, some people will just like what they like regardless and some will kind of "feel" something in/behind a piece. Like personally with concept art in particular I have seen so many technically amazing pieces that feel completely empty and so many pieces that were "rough" and "unfinished" and nowhere near the same level of technically amazing but "felt" so much better. I've stopped following/caring about actuallhy amazing artists on dA because they eventually started doing more of the stuff that paid their bills (catering to their patrons) which made them a whole lot less interesting for me.
I figured a similar thing will happen with AI content once it stops being shiny if it's not happening already.
You're probably right in that many people creating content regualrly these days are doing it for monetary reasons, I have the opposite thing as I remember (back in MY day XD) when blogging was new and shiny and basically somewhere between and online "open diary" and an interesting new way of communicating with people (not quite a personalised forum that only you or very select people could top level post in but not far off).
I do both. Making art nobody likes is the most noble. 😁
The future is AI, for better or for worse. !BBH
However we might feel about it, there's no doubt that AI is here, and it will stay.
For me, the question has always been about the appropriate and most beneficial use of AI... my worry there is the humans, not the AI!
I remember some truism I read a while back; (mis)quoted as: "If AI automation is so great, why are we using AI to create paintings and compose music, while I still have to wash my dishes and do my laundry manually?"
Recently, a friend's life was — in essence — saved by the mediacal diagnostic powers of AI. She queried using her entire medical history and lab results... and AI came up with an accurate "most likely" diagnosis that doctors had completely missed, mostly because no doctor is a speciaist across 50 fields, but AI can collate and analyze that data.
Using AI to create your written content because you're too lazy or inept yourself simply tells me that you're in the wrong field.
As you suggest, it's the story tellers that will thrive. At least... I hope you're right. I enjoy the creative period, and I'm damn sure not going to hand that off to automation, just in search of expediency.
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Probably in the right field but efficient - is the cope.
I think part of the problem is looking at Content Creation. If one creates as a hobby versus one treating their content as a livelihood, the stakes tend to be higher and there's a mismatch on when is the use of AI going to be ok.
I wouldn't blame animators if they incorporated some AI into their CGI because traditional animation takes a lot of time and costly. The end output may not even be so obvious that AI has been used in some parts that it breaks immersion.
However, I'd still judge an artist based on how much AI assist they have incorporated in their workflow to produce their content. Because some parts of the routine tedious work doesn't require active critical thinking like automatically filtering drafted lines from the sketch then have AI generate the line art intended. This use is AI being a tool. But if AI had to lay out the composition and build the sketch from scratch, then that's just lazy.
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AI is here and its only going to be more of it. Just a few days ago my management asked us to figure out job processes that AI could do. A scary tasks that makes you think how AI will eat up the work force. I work in the government sector not the public. Its already being used in job appraisals and feed backs.
For Hive, I was engaged in a conversation yesterday with someone. I brought up the point how I thought it would be nice to have a an AI catcher at the time of hitting publish. Being rejected before publishing would save time for many but hey I'm sure it would eventually be figured out. Its getting worse not just content but also with comments!
This comment was not AI generated, haha.
It's a trap because they're asking you to identify areas where people can be replaced with automation. I recall an article where they trained the company's AI only to be replaced by AI for redundancy.
These days, the only way people would know it's me shitposting is how I pay less fucks about my grammar and just type whatever French comes to mind. And it's this clue that helps me find who still doesn't rely on grammarly shitposting in these parts.
I write about this few times, and as a person who love art and manual craft. I really like how the IA tools help us but can't ignore the ammount of people who don't draw or do digital desing, now they won't need a artist just log in into any ia and do what ever they want.
@adamada, I paid out 0.353 HIVE and 0.060 HBD to reward 5 comments in this discussion thread.