as both an engineer and an entertainer, perception is reality. on the one hand, a computer system could 1:1 recreate a stunt a human did and elevate it to a stunt a human couldn’t do.
people witness entertainment to trick their minds, and the disbelief and astonishment in the human condition hinges on “there’s no way _i_ could do that” and once they know they literally could not have done it, they’re not impressed. they may pay to be fooled once, but never twice.
there’s a market for what you’re talking about, but that space is b2b and not c2c, which is where entertainment money flows.
tl;dr dollar for dollar, ai vs taylor swift, taylor swift wins every time, no contest.
totally agree, but what i’m getting at is the creative core of an expression. there’s an aspect of a piece that impresses and i’m claiming that exists as something the viewer appreciates and imitates in their mind’s eye.
as a programmer, i create many things that impress people, but when i show them the methods of that creation, i can palpably feel their excitement wane as they lose interest in the nuance of my execution.
beyond the surface, there’s an aspect of being impressed that is also the desire to take part in the recreation of it all.
my claim in the first person, “i’m visually impressed by many image generators, but i’m not interested in fiddling with knobs, buttons, and strings to recreate the image in my mind’s eye”
I just think that art economy should not be beholden to critical consensus.
Art is a continuum of multimedia. At some abstraction you will be able to submit your piece into the collective and draw on increasingly precise inspo.
as an artist, i had a piece of software. in this piece of software i was able to pause and rewind time, snap to keyframes and investigate every layer, every line, every point.
macromedia flash was my childhood, the foundation of my career in technology, eventually bought by adobe and shut down.
i’m really not seeing that level of fidelity in these ai systems. i agree art shouldn’t be beholden to any form of consensus, but i’m more wary of any art supply that’s leased, not owned.
Fair enough! I appreciate your perspective on this.
My art experience was programmatic art on Godot - by implementing algorithms on Wikipedia, painting in Krita with a tablet, and some modeling in Blender; FOSS save us.
Perhaps democratized or collective compute is next. Maybe AI as art itself is the new frontier.
people witness entertainment to trick their minds, and the disbelief and astonishment in the human condition hinges on “there’s no way _i_ could do that” and once they know they literally could not have done it, they’re not impressed. they may pay to be fooled once, but never twice.
there’s a market for what you’re talking about, but that space is b2b and not c2c, which is where entertainment money flows.
tl;dr dollar for dollar, ai vs taylor swift, taylor swift wins every time, no contest.