03-25-2024, 12:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-25-2024, 12:58 PM by clockwork5.)
As someone who has zero visual artistic talent, AI generated art has helped me do things I couldn’t before and essentially for free. Best example is the personalized birthday card I generated for my girlfriend this year.
We moved to a new city a couple years ago, being in our 30s/40s it’s been hard to make friends and we will never have the same kind of interlocking social circles that we had in our home city. So I generated a simple painted image of all of her friends I could think of in a sgt pepper like collage with them all around a picnic table. Just simple prompts “tall woman, blonde hair, glasses, seated next to averaged height man, brown hair, wearing a suit, arms in the air.” Did it blow her mind? Not really but she really liked it and had fun guessing who was who and whatnot.
Seems fairly anti-capitalist to me. Giving little ole me the means of production and all. Makes me wonder why they are so invested in protecting the status quo. Idk maybe benji can illustrate their perspective better, because I don’t get it. Use the tech for what you can, say “see ya later Hallmark” or whatever corp you would have otherwise engaged with and keep your carrot all to yourself.
And whenever they talk about songwriting I just roll my eyes. “Next they will write the commercial jingles.” Like you know, that shit all belongs to publishing houses that pay the artist literal pennies for those jingles. At this point, people who are foolish enough to waste their time writing this music for literal poverty pay will gladly accept some AI assistance in creating hundreds of jingles they will sell as a package to a faceless entity for a couple hundred bucks.
Edit: the printing press analogy is spot on.
We moved to a new city a couple years ago, being in our 30s/40s it’s been hard to make friends and we will never have the same kind of interlocking social circles that we had in our home city. So I generated a simple painted image of all of her friends I could think of in a sgt pepper like collage with them all around a picnic table. Just simple prompts “tall woman, blonde hair, glasses, seated next to averaged height man, brown hair, wearing a suit, arms in the air.” Did it blow her mind? Not really but she really liked it and had fun guessing who was who and whatnot.
Seems fairly anti-capitalist to me. Giving little ole me the means of production and all. Makes me wonder why they are so invested in protecting the status quo. Idk maybe benji can illustrate their perspective better, because I don’t get it. Use the tech for what you can, say “see ya later Hallmark” or whatever corp you would have otherwise engaged with and keep your carrot all to yourself.
And whenever they talk about songwriting I just roll my eyes. “Next they will write the commercial jingles.” Like you know, that shit all belongs to publishing houses that pay the artist literal pennies for those jingles. At this point, people who are foolish enough to waste their time writing this music for literal poverty pay will gladly accept some AI assistance in creating hundreds of jingles they will sell as a package to a faceless entity for a couple hundred bucks.
Edit: the printing press analogy is spot on.
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