Submitted by Seandouglasmcardle t3_znlq1d in Futurology
The ramifications of AI art has much further reaching ramifications than artists crying "mah jerb!"
Every day, we upload three billion images to the internet. We have tools now that make it much easier to create art than ever before, but the downside is, it is more difficult to create an image that cuts through the noise and make an actual impact than ever before. We are bombarded with more visual stimuli that our brains can handle. We are literally drowning in a sea of images.
So what happens when we inevitably take this to the next step and program an AI chatbot to create the prompts that are fed to the AI to create the art files, which are then posted by bots, calibrated by an AI to appease the AI algorithm, and are then upvoted by AI bots, making it impossible for human created artwork to even be seen, or make any kind of impact.
We can very quickly get to 3 billion images posted every minute.
These images do not express anything about the human condition, provoke any emotion, educate or entertain — it’s just meaningless static.
So then at that rate, has visual art completely lost its power? Is it rendered completely meaningless? Does it lose it's ability to connect us to other humans?
Take that a step further, and will we see all content -- images, articles, books, videos, movies -- everything we consume becoming a la carte, completely constructed on the fly, specifically tailored and unique for each and every individual. The irony of the internet is that it has connected all of us, but has made our individual bubbles smaller and smaller, as we have content catered to us by algorithm based on our own personal biases and browsing habits. What happens when that bubble contracts to the size of one?
What's the end game? Each of us existing in our own separate pod, lacking something as primal and communal as art to connect us?