imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
right now much of the financial value in art is captured by the delivery mechanisms, which are the parts of the equation that have arguably gotten cheaper. meanwhile the share that goes to artists has dwindled & the generative people want to crush it even further
this all popped off a little! I don’t have anything to promote but if this resonated then please, if you have the money to do so, support your local creators
By generous application of their riches, the Medicis and others fostered and sustained the Renaissance. Today's tech barons, wealthier by orders of magnitude, are fixated on building automated Etch-a-Sketches.
They are building theft machines. They are building machines that reroute irregular droplets of income from artists to a firehose of cash to libertarian billionaires.
I saw ppl posting how much they pay for the plagiarism tools and I was like man, you could get a nice custom commission or two per month for that money.
The fact that they can automate art, but not JIRA tells you that it's not about the work, but about who is deemed deserving. Each layer in society profits from the layer below, and protects the layer above.
Texas is subsidizing 10 billion dollars for new fossil fuel power plants specifically because of AI data centers. Imagine if they just subsidized artists and journalists and other workers instead. What a world that would be :(
I went to the Whitney this spring and one of the exhibits was computer art and I couldn’t get out of that fast enough. It was so uninteresting and I was appalled they included it.
but how will we means test it
how can we be certain that they will spend that money on their craft and not food or housing
how can we quantify the value of the output with the possibility of rescinding grants
(we live in hell)
reminds me of me frequently saying imagine how much innovation and progress we could potentially make if we put a fraction of oil R&D funding into green energy R&D 🥲
Pfft. That's inefficient, Luddite thinking.
With LLMs, we get to:
1) Spend shitloads of money,
2) Destroy the planet, AND
3) Get shitty art
That's THREE for one, and capitalism has taught me that's ALWAYS a good deal.
One day when AI dies, all of It’s ‘art’ will still be soulless garbage.
500 years after AI dies, all of It’s ‘art’ will still be soulless garbage.
2000 years after AI dies, all of It’s ‘art’ will be the focus of three different religions.
Yes, but also think of all the wonderfully polished literary translations we could have if we paid translators a decent wage instead of copy-pasting all our text into Google Translate. I hate to break this to you, but everybody values fast and cheap results over quality they have to pay for.
