I’ve heard this sentiment expressed a few times in recent years and I gotta say, it’s not the same.
What we are talking about here is removing the person and the novel inputs they can contribute to the process of creation.
I would argue that a lifetime of honing skill and soaking one’s mind in various art forms, coupled with an individual’s intellectual and emotional experiences create feedback loops between the creator and their creations that result in new things outside of existing frameworks because there is a special ingredient: someone’s life, their way of thinking and being as a result of so many factors.
Generative tools that have the appearance of creating something are just chopping up what exists and rearranging it.
People do that too, but they often end up unintentionally putting something of themselves in there, because they can’t help it. That’s how we get new art.
The thing is, if we remove the experience how to become a musician completely, we also remove our selves from the equation more completely. Generative tools can “make me a composition in the style A with influences from genre B, with song subject C” but that’s not the entirety of artistic practice. There’s more to it than that, and only by suffering through the process and making it a part of ourselves and so our selves a part of it, do we get something special and new.
If we decide that is not necessary anymore, then I think we will render ourselves incapable of making new art on a personal level, and live out a dreary existence in thrall to a content mill of increasingly bland, recycled tropes…perhaps only the rich and privileged will ever have the opportunity to dedicate enough time in their lives to making new art that is distinct, or perhaps nobody will consider these art forms as worth investing any time in at all.
I think we are going to kill our own creativity and deskill ourselves as a population and destroy how artists get made. if we keep buying into this shit it’ll be like the issue with “moving manufacturing jobs back to the US”. There’s not even enough skilled workers left to support such an idea. Try making an original film feature that isn’t 99% slop or having a real orchestra when everyone has given up on actually being an artist/musician as a job long ago.
It’s not the same as DAWs or synthesizers or drum machines or cameras or whatever. We are talking about killing art as a human endeavour because we are stupid and lazy and think Gen “AI” is “good enough”.
I’ve heard this sentiment expressed a few times in recent years and I gotta say, it’s not the same.
What we are talking about here is removing the person and the novel inputs they can contribute to the process of creation.
I would argue that a lifetime of honing skill and soaking one’s mind in various art forms, coupled with an individual’s intellectual and emotional experiences create feedback loops between the creator and their creations that result in new things outside of existing frameworks because there is a special ingredient: someone’s life, their way of thinking and being as a result of so many factors.
Generative tools that have the appearance of creating something are just chopping up what exists and rearranging it.
People do that too, but they often end up unintentionally putting something of themselves in there, because they can’t help it. That’s how we get new art.
The thing is, if we remove the experience how to become a musician completely, we also remove our selves from the equation more completely. Generative tools can “make me a composition in the style A with influences from genre B, with song subject C” but that’s not the entirety of artistic practice. There’s more to it than that, and only by suffering through the process and making it a part of ourselves and so our selves a part of it, do we get something special and new.
If we decide that is not necessary anymore, then I think we will render ourselves incapable of making new art on a personal level, and live out a dreary existence in thrall to a content mill of increasingly bland, recycled tropes…perhaps only the rich and privileged will ever have the opportunity to dedicate enough time in their lives to making new art that is distinct, or perhaps nobody will consider these art forms as worth investing any time in at all.
I think we are going to kill our own creativity and deskill ourselves as a population and destroy how artists get made. if we keep buying into this shit it’ll be like the issue with “moving manufacturing jobs back to the US”. There’s not even enough skilled workers left to support such an idea. Try making an original film feature that isn’t 99% slop or having a real orchestra when everyone has given up on actually being an artist/musician as a job long ago.
It’s not the same as DAWs or synthesizers or drum machines or cameras or whatever. We are talking about killing art as a human endeavour because we are stupid and lazy and think Gen “AI” is “good enough”.