I heard about C2PA and I don’t believe for a second that it’s not going to be used for surveillance and all that other fun stuff. What’s worse is that they’re apparently trying to make it legally required. It also really annoys me when I see headlines along the lines of “Is AI the end of creativity?!1!” or “AI will help artists, not hurt them!1!!” or something to that effect. So, it got me thinking and I tried to come up with some answers that actually benefit artists and their audience rather that just you know who.
Unfortunately my train of thought keeps barreling out of control to things like, “AI should do the boring stuff, not the fun stuff” and “if people didn’t risk starvation in the first place…” So I thought I’d find out what other people think (search engines have become borderline useless haven’t they).
So what do you think would be the best way to satisfy everyone?
You’re aware that what we call “AI” these days can only, at its theoretical best, reach what already exists and not surpass it?
The current AI models are going to get fed more data from more sources, have new algorithms to sort and process information, and deliver more sophisticated output. They’re going to get better. That’s not theory, that’s already the case. Regardless, it’s already displacing a lot of artists. It’s not going to replace artists entirely like how cars didn’t entirely take out horses from the economy or how the internet hasn’t completely taken out CDs, but these types of professions are going to be a lot more rare and niche. Just like how professional horse riders or CD manufactures tried to protest technology and lost, the same will apply here. Artists have to adapt to the new technology, they can’t stop it.