The people I have encountered who claim ai helps with creativity always seem to assume they are naturally “creative” but are held back by a lack of technical talent. Which is why they sometimes call actual artists “gatekeepers”.
I think this whole belief about ai helping people be creative comes from the belief that creativity and skill are separate things. But if you have ever tried to practice an art you would know they are part of the same whole. You can’t be a creative painter without understanding how to represent a perspective, or understanding how light and shadow interact, etc. You build those understandings through practice. There are no shortcuts.
I am person with lack on creativity and ai with no creativity have more creativity than me, so sometimes i using it as “give me variants” and maybe ill choose one or probably it helps me to choose the way in thoughts to imagine the better variant. Or ill just waste the time with ai…
That’s okay (discounting energy consumption I guess) but you would be wrong if you thought you were creative or an artist doing it.
I was there at the peak Macromedia Flash days. Shit was so fun to play around in, simple enough a 15 year old could work out how to make great animations and interactions but powerful enough to make whole games in and it was the experimentation that led to the creativity.
Kids these days have roblox to play with which looks like it’s got the same type of creative tools so that experimentation is still going on in bedrooms and libraries but it’s just being swamped by so much slop.
Sometimes I see streamers play a game that you wouldn’t believe had been built in Roblox, they look like good quality indie games built around a modern engine.
Creatives hate AI, full stop. As a musician, I notice that a huge majority of musicians despise that shit. It’s such obvious copyright infringement, but whereas I get a life-crippling fine for using a 2-second sample of someone else’s song, these companies walk away unscathed after scraping every fucking song on the internet. You and me would go to prison for doing that.
You notice how incredibly often failed or failing creatives end up grifting to the right? Nicki Manaj at the Charlie Kirk event. Steven Crowder’s failed acting career. Every dipshit comedian on Joe Rogan scraping for a semblance of relevance. Hitler himself was a failed artist, and it should come as no surprise that fascists and fascist-sympathizers are gung ho for AI in creative fields; they want to control the culture, control the narrative, and ultimately control the public sentiment in their favor.
It’s a fools errand. Art represents individual expression beyond their control and reaches the culture organically and not with an ironclad fist. The kids will be alright.
Yeah but they can’t charge kids to doodle
I mean, art supplies, even if its just pencil and paper, generally cost money and dont last forever, so someone out there is charging for kids doodling. Unless theyre drawing in the dirt with a stick I guess.
> go to ikea > grab their free pencils > grab their free note taking paper > infinite art supply glitch
Love this shill getting ratio’d for trying to equate what’s essentially theft with “democratization”:
The worse part is, all this slop is going to steal a whole future generations of their artistic voice. This is the point of course. To privatize flatten and centralize all creativity so nothing challenges the project of capital. Even local models are made in a way where everything defaults to a very standard style and discourse that aligns with the techbro overlords.
it’s the revolution of the nostalgic boomers and millennials, unable to accept anything new and forever stuck on the old memberberries they loved so much.
