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How AI Will Make Art Worse
Many live in quiet fear that AI will someday be, if not the death of art itself, then at least of the human artist’s livelihood. Between Hollywood screenwriters taking to the streets to protect their jobs from large language models and robot artists like Ai-Da fetching millions at auction, the future of art can seem rather grim.
TL;DR
- Throughout history, technological advancements in art have shifted focus from form to content, encouraging human artists to explore new creative avenues.
- AI's development mirrors past technological disruptions, pushing human artists to emphasize their unique existence and life experiences.
- Human-made art in the AI era is expected to become more personal, idiosyncratic, and less reliant on consistent, replicable styles.
- Inimitability, through deliberate imperfection and uniqueness, will become as crucial as originality for human artists.
- The advancement of AI in creating technically perfect art may lead human artists to embrace flaws, incompetence, and rawness as defining aesthetic characteristics.