[drdaeman]

It’s the opposite, non-creatives (if such roles even exist in those industries) should be worried. All those models offset technical skills, allowing to get from idea to implementation through a different route (which can be easier or harder depending on idea and model - good luck tweaking that pelican’s exact pose and movements to match your imagination precisely). Nothing touches creativity, not even in the slightest.

But there’s a lot of panicking, fear-mongering and all sorts of nonsense around this whole subject.

[Retric]

My mother has started watching 100% AI generated stories on YouTube. They are good enough to be entertaining even if they include random errors like messing up the main character’s name.

The thing is the creative economy is all about people’s attention and pocketbooks, it doesn’t need to be great just good enough.

[floren]

> My mother has started watching 100% AI generated stories on YouTube.

God, I'm sorry

[grey-area]

Deeply troubling for so many reasons.

Please try to get her to stop.

[abc123abc123]

What's the problem? If I enjoy some show, material or text, if it brings me value or a brief moment of happiness, I could care less if it was made by an AI or a human.

This racism against AI-generated stuff has to stop. If not, we'll have a butlerian jihad on our hands that will set back prosperity, development and science for decades, perhaps centuries.

People mention the artists... ohh, boohoo... either do it on your free time, improve your performance and selling skills or move to another job.

It's not my job to slave away only so that artists can day dream and produce stuff that no one cares about.

[whilenot-dev]

I think we need to start separating such concepts like entertainment from the ones of enjoyment, fascination, function, interest, satisfaction, beauty and the sublime a bit more. Art theory literally has books on these things, as they all fall under the topic of aesthetics. Do you really enjoy a frozen pizza from the oven at home in the same way as a freshly made pizza from an authentic pizza oven?

I always care about the processes involved, especially if any human work is involved, from all its accuracies to its errors. For me, interesting things happen while we balance our understandings with a certain amount of holism and a certain amount of reductionism. Putting it on either side of the scale, like your holistic statements, is just pure ideology, and that doesn't hold any merit in reality and is honestly just bland, repetitive and boring.

[Retric]

> Do you really enjoy a frozen pizza from the oven at home in the same way as a freshly made pizza from an authentic pizza oven?

Yes absolutely. I even measure them on the same scale and sometimes the frozen pizza wins.

I’ve literally got an authentic wood brining pizza oven at home and it can cook some great pizza, but that doesn’t mean its output is somehow in an untouchable category it’s just food. Further, with access to the real thing novelty goes away and it needs to sand on its own.

[simonw]

Racism?

[aceazzameen]

Is this a parody?

[mcfedr]

whats the appeal of that kind of content? its objectively worse than real content, and its not like there is a shortage of real content

[ryandrake]

I think the elderly are particularly vulnerable. I also have at least one family member whose social media feed is 100% slop, they are blissfully unaware, and if you told them, they wouldn’t believe you.

[colinb]

The truly excellent weavers will be fine?

[grey-area]

That’s really not how this is going to play out.

When advertising agencies for example see that their copywriter can go from idea to concept with a video generator instead of engaging an animator, they’ll simply cut the middleman who used to create that animation for them and use the tool instead, even if the content isn’t as good (though the quality of this one is really pretty good, there are obvious problems). They’ll happily accept mediocrity to save money.

People will still create adverts but quality and creativity will go down and a lot of jobs are going to be suddenly displaced.

[flakeoil]

Does "creative" mean that you are creative at coming up with ideas or does it mean that you are artistic and can create stuff?

I suppose it is more the latter, and it's the artistic people who create stuff who will suffer. The ones coming up with ideas, but previously couldn't create becasuse they lacked skill might win thanks to AI.

Coming up with ideas is easy, creating and putting in the effort is hard (until we had AI).

Probably the value of created stuff will go down rapidly because there will be so much of it.