Personally, I don’t think that AI slop can or will replace art and writing. I DO think that depraved tech lords are going to force us to spend at least a decade (or more) *proving* that AI can’t do this stuff in the worst, most destructive way possible.

I personally believe that it will. Or atleast, it will get very close. It's almost 100% likely that even the best AI will lack personality in the art it "creates", but I do feel like at a certain point in time, the art will become good enough to be considered "good enough".

And jobs will suffer in the process. I can’t believe people aren’t getting more angry about job loss. It’s going to be a bloodbath, if it isn’t already.

Well. Hope is kind. The amount of shitty content consumed on the daily might break your hopes though. It isn't like the scroll machines feed great art. Though some bangers 4 sure. Mostly drivel driving visibility. That is gonna accelerate to doom.

The way I think of it is that our LLMs and image gen are not particularly good at art but are very good at content. It can write something and you’ll understand what it’s about, it’ll draw something and you’ll recognize what it is. This is bad in a society that often treats art as just content.

All the talk of replacing art and writing is a deflection from the fact that business and management have been researched so extensively that it would be 1000x easier to replace nearly all executive management than to replace artists

I think we're in the "Star Wars Prequels CGI" era. Remember when CGI first came out, & some directors decided "Oh, this is AMAZING!" and started sticking terrible CGI everywhere, even in places where it had no business being? Audiences reacted, directors learned, CGI got better & the world moved on

Just like the “pivot to video.” It hollowed out written media and it turned out to be based on total fraud, and those writing jobs didn’t come back.

It really has the same "gotta get behind this right now" feeling that pivot to video, blockchain, nft, and the meta verse all gave off. Its a concept being sold not something everyone is looking for.

While I don't think anyone knows for certain how this will play out, I agree: we're going to have to shout loudly to tell AI creators what AI can and can't do. It's akin to moving from paper to screens: used well, the tech can help. Used poorly, it can make the writing (and editing) worse.

I was ruminating on this last night (I wrote a longer thing I'll post last week) but for me one of the most fascinating (and depressing, sure) bits of this is that creative industry execs are going to hollow out the absolute core of their business because they don't know how to measure it