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a technology that is a threat to human creativity
Perhaps the most stupid take on this subject I have seen. Nothing will stop humans creating, definitely not a new creative medium! That's all it is, by the way, a new medium, like photography a hundred and some years ago, or digital painting more recently. Most of the same arguments were made against pre mixed paints - Turner was dragged for using them, for example!
It is problematic though. People start relying on content generation more and more and stop learning how to do it properly. Once they start relying on AI shit, that's when capitalism does its thing and locks you into monthly subscription costs. Just look at what Adobe is doing. They create a dependency and then start changing their business model. Cloud this and cloud that is the same kind of problem.
Plus, ai generated content often looks alike. You kind of take away signature looks of creators.
I'm not entirely against AI generated content. A friend of mine hates social media but his small business relies on it. Most of his posts are ai generated just so he doesn't have to deal with that cancer.
It is problematic just like the current IP laws are non congruent with AI generation.
But The cat's out of the bag nothing's going to stop it from happening.
We're going to need to figure out how to make it work
The “they stop learning how to do it properly” is as old as time itself!
How many of today’s Illlustrator artists know how to blend oil colours and layer them on cloth? How many software developers could build what they do in pure assembler?
We stand on the shoulders of giants, have been since the Stone Age. Specialisation and advancement has meant we don’t need to start from first principle. You could argue that is what “progress” is; being able to get a little bit further because your parents got a little bit further because their parents got a little bit further.
That argument goes together with the whole money trap thing though. That's my main problem. And people still blend colors digitally. Devs still program themselves and merely use ai as a starting point. They'd never trust ai generated code blindly. Entering a prompt to have something generated or using an ai brush just isn't really the same as actually creating something. It's literally letting a (cloud of) computer (s) create your art for you.
Edit: dumbing down the internet and computers has lead to a colossal amount of imbeciles who aren't able to do anything beyond scrolling on their phones. This is a huge problem as they're being exploited by companies and politicians in a very efficient manner. All because people forgot how to use and troubleshoot a computer.
I’m super concerned about what the future holds for humanity and I worry that AI will leave millions and millions without an income and further concentrate wealth towards the few.
That said this is clearly a “we can’t compete, let’s make a press release to say ‘this is all wrong and we choose not to compete’”-statement.
That stance will change if they ever get acquired. Might even get the chance to see James Cuda try and walk back this stance in a few years.
I mean, ok, it's not like anyone using Procreate is going to use AI generation in it anyway...
Very good news for artists. AI image generation is founded upon art theft, and art theft is something that artists are not fond of, so it's really nice to see the developer being open about his respect to the artists who use the app!
