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Will AI Replace the Artist?
Meanwhile, even as generative AI has rapidly affected Kim Van Deun’s livelihood, she says she has never once regretted pursuing art as a career. This is what art does to us. Whether we make it or become its patron, it gives us a way to envision a different kind of world, a new way of expression. It gives us hope.
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... See moreLast night at dinner talking about subculture stuff and I bring up my standard boring/reductive Q about “how punk skate hip hop etc had monoculture to rebel against, so what now?,” and a brilliant friend answered straight up, “AI will be mainstream monoculture-esque, and is at its core boring and average and uncreative, and that is what people will... See more
Use the tools if you must. But a better use of your extra energy — such as it is — is to live the gap between human and AI. Can an AI gather, synthesize, calculate, and even speculate faster than we can? Yes. Can it do all those things better than we can? Maybe. Can it be more interesting, unexpected, artful, or meaningful? Well that’s just a matte... See more
If you think about it, AI has digested the entirety of human knowledge but lacks the lived experience to make it meaningful. It's like a tourist who's read every guidebook but never actually visited the country. Technically informed but missing the scents, the sounds, the subtle social cues that bring true understanding. It can mimic but not origi
... See morefrom the Desk of Tobias van Schneider • The Future of the Designer — From the Desk of Van Schneider — Edition №263
There is something unspoken lurking in the background of the most impassioned critiques of generative AI. Between the cries of plagiarism and unoriginal lazy mimicry is the fact that there is almost nothing original or unique about culture now in the first place. Putting aside the dangerous and ahistorical simplification of creativity as originalit... See more