My #official take is that AI art generally on the whole fucking sucks. 90% of it is uninteresting slop content by brain dead techbros who have no knowledge of art or why we value it.
HOWEVER!!! There is one use case where I think using AI in your art can actually elevate the work, and thatâs if the art itself is in some way trying to say something about AI.
Luckily, thereâs actually a lot of things to say about AI â referencing it in your work pretty firmly places it in the current cultural landscape in super powerful way.
Some examples (note that these all have pretty nihilistic / downright dystopian outlooks on modern society, maybe thatâs also imporyant):
- Vegynâs album under the Headache pseudonym
- some of the scenes in Conner OâMalleyâs 103 fever short
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Apologies if this is strongly worded, but I'm pretty passionate about this. In addition to the functions public-facing AI tools have, we have to consider what the goal of AI is for corporations. This is an old cliché, but it's a useful one: follow the money. When we see some of the biggest tech companies in the world going all-in on this stuff, alarm bells should be going off. We're seeing a complete buy in by Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and even Meta suddenly pivoted to AI and seems to be quietly abandoning their beloved Metaverse. For decades, the goal of all these companies has always been infinite growth, taking a bigger share of the market, and making a bigger profit. When these are the main motivators, the workforce that carries out the labor supporting an industry is what inevitably suffers. People are told to do more with less, and cuts are made where C-suite executives see fit at the detriment of everyone down the hierarchy. Where AI is unique to other tangible products is that it is an efficiency beast in so many different ways. I have personally seen it affect my job as part of a larger cost-cutting measure. Microsoft's latest IT solutions are designed to automate as much as possible in favor of having actual people carry out typically client-facing tasks. Copy writers/editors inevitably won't be hired if people could instead type a prompt into ChatGPT to spit out a product description. Already, there are so many publications and Substacks that use AI image generators to create attention-grabbing header and link images - before this, an artist could have been paid to create something that might afford them food for the week. All this is to say that we will see a widening discrepancy between the ultra-wealthy and the working class, and the socio-economic structure we're in actively encourages consolidation of power. There are other moral implications with it that I could go on about, but they're kind of subjective. In relation to art, dedicating oneself to a craft often lends itself to fostering a community for support in one's journey, and if we collectively lean on AI more instead of other people, we risk isolating ourselves further in an environment that is already designed to do that. In my opinion, we shouldn't try to co-exist with something that is made to make our physical and emotional work obsolete.
Mar 24, 2024
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IMO. Solution without a problem yet.
I personally think AI art looks like shit too. Part of the joy of art is knowing that a human created this and trying to unpack after around that like what were the influences, what were they trying to convey. AI will never be able to explain WHY it produced something in a satisfying way. In fact, from what I can tell, it's almost IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to be able to explain how a LLM generated the answer at it did. (but I could be wrong). My response to most AI art is "wow those colors are really rich" or "this is so creepy."
On the margins I think there could be some efficiency gains (stuff like "take this complicated piece of data and summarize it for human consumption") that could change industries, but I think at this point it's mostly vaporware.
And if general AI is ever let out into the wild god save us all.
Mar 1, 2024
AI is garbage for so many reasons and none of us should be using it.
that includes making art as well as seemingly mundane corporate tasks.
itâs atrocious for the planet, itâs horrific for the uncredited workers who labor to power it, it bulldozes all notions of âprivacyâ and further fast-tracks the commodification of humanity, and itâs fueling the dumpster fire that is an entire generation of brains raised in the cesspool of the internet.
Jan 13, 2025
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get da NTS app or whatever radio station u fuck with and just put that on in the morning. ya your brain might want stimulation before u can get out of bed but it doesnât need instagram reels level shit. Just some fresh music is sometimes all u need
Feb 20, 2025
Jan 20, 2025
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separate your to do list into what does and doesnât require a screen, and do those lists separately
means you arenât constantly bouncing between a screen and the material world. Bonus points if your screenless list is completed without any music or podcasts or anything at all. Youâre hiding your true power level by blocking all your thinking with consumption!!
posting a neoluddite rec on pifyi is basically reaction farming Iâve realised but Iâm NOT that cynical I promise
Jan 15, 2025