[zenkat]

For me, the primary concern isn't about Art as an economic activity. It's about what happens to human society when communication becomes divorced from human meaning.

The original purpose of art (and language) was to communicate the thoughts & views of one human mind to another. It's a fundamental need, the essence of being human, the cornerstone of culture and society.

DALL-E and GPT-3 are about to unleash a tidal wave of content that no longer performs that function, simply because _there is no human mind at its source_. What happens to us then, when we are constantly receiving an overwhelming babble of voices that appear on their surface to be meaningful, but lack any true meaning at their core? What happens to our voices, our relationships, our society?

[dougabug]

Someone still wrote the prompts, perhaps iteratively until they got results which pleased them enough to save and share with others. Other tools allow modifying the results by coarsely sketching where you want semantic changes. You could have a dialogue with the AI criticizing whatever you did or didn’t like about the current draft, and what changes you wanted to explore.

If someone made a comic book with these kinds of tools, I’d score it as a win for enabling personal creative expression.

When writing was invented, I suppose one could have feared the loss of natural human bilateral aspect of communication. Writing detaches the writer from what is natively a direct interaction between people, and allows us to “speak into a shell,” so to speak.

[taylorius]

100% agree. It's going to shatter communication into a thousand shards. Maybe hipsters will save us - they might bring back unmediated face to face communication as one of their anachronistic hobbies.

[sdenton4]

Isn't that Reddit?