Maybe. It will definitely allow people to speed up their process, but this may not be just for the better. The other side is that the market may become so over-saturated with media that no one except those large companies - who have the resources to amplify the market presence of their product through other means - will be able to find an audience and profit significantly from their work. This is already a problem for independent artists and I think AI probably doesn't help. There's also the facet of the issue where "spam" of AI-generated media devalues independent art in society's eyes and makes pursuing independent projects less attractive.
Just saying. Maybe everything will be beautiful and we can look forward to this "open" AI boom continuing into a glorious future. Maybe these companies with billions of dollars and huge incumbency advantage will just roll over and not use these tools to dominate the industry even more than they already do. I don't think that's likely given that these services are basically guaranteed to morph into tiered paid services with the most powerful packages only available to huge enterprises... Hey, optimism feels good. It's just that the potential repercussions for creative fields are so dire that we might want to think really, really hard about it and not get sucked into blind optimism.
Disaster191919 t1_j1neggg wrote
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Maybe. It will definitely allow people to speed up their process, but this may not be just for the better. The other side is that the market may become so over-saturated with media that no one except those large companies - who have the resources to amplify the market presence of their product through other means - will be able to find an audience and profit significantly from their work. This is already a problem for independent artists and I think AI probably doesn't help. There's also the facet of the issue where "spam" of AI-generated media devalues independent art in society's eyes and makes pursuing independent projects less attractive.
Just saying. Maybe everything will be beautiful and we can look forward to this "open" AI boom continuing into a glorious future. Maybe these companies with billions of dollars and huge incumbency advantage will just roll over and not use these tools to dominate the industry even more than they already do. I don't think that's likely given that these services are basically guaranteed to morph into tiered paid services with the most powerful packages only available to huge enterprises... Hey, optimism feels good. It's just that the potential repercussions for creative fields are so dire that we might want to think really, really hard about it and not get sucked into blind optimism.