[raincole]

I don't get it at all. How exactly does AI prevents you from creating art? If you want to write your own song, grab a guitar or midi keyboard and go for it. Do you really think AI will make a simple guitar unaffordable in the near future?

Yeah, AI might make "manual content creation" less profitable... but you said creating art is an enjoyment itself, right? If you only do it when it's profitable, then maybe you don't enjoy it... you enjoy the money. Most people are willing to spend time with their SO even it's not profitable. That's how I know they enjoy it.

[EGreg]

It’s not that it will prevent you. It’s that no one will want to listen to it.

Do you ask your parents or google?

Do you ask strangers for directions or google maps?

Do you wear sweaters knitted by other people? They’d have to pay YOU to put up with their sweaters and wear them.

No one outside of a niche or your immediate family will give a shit about your music, buddy. They already don’t give a shit about most other things people used to do, after automation replaced it.

If it makes you feel better, already hardly anyone really reads the vast majority of comments and articles people write. It is solely an exercise in releasing your own stress LOL. No one cares!

[vidarh]

For the vast majority of artists in any genre no one pays any attention anyway. The threshold where people starts to pay attention to you is really high. If you make art for the sake of adulation, sure, good enough AI generation will make that even harder. But your odds of getting to that stage are already vanishingly small.

[EGreg]

That’s true. It is already hard for any humans to rise to the top of the statistical distribution. Soon it will become nearly impossible, as it is in chess for example.

But a great analogy is whether people are interested in watching chess games between players rated 1300. Maybe, for like 2 minutes. Then they get bored and move on. The two players are interested in that game and that’s it !

[hallux]

Thanks for this brilliant insight. After work, I probably am going to grab my midi keyboard, just like I have for almost 20 years now.

Oh and I've never made any money off of it. In fact I haven't even tried.

Tone deafness comes in many forms, I see.