This is myopic “Silicon Valley” rhetoric and lacks understanding of art or why it’s appreciated.
We have video cameras and movies, yet stage actors on Broadway are celebrated like movie stars. People still read books. We have cameras and photoshop, yet a huge market still exists for oil on canvas. We have synthesizers, drum kits, and all the tools we need to make music on a computer, yet live concerts with guitars and drums sell millions of tickets annually. We have the technology to deliver payloads on another continent with millimeter precision, yet every few years, the whole world gathers to watch people who have trained a lifetime to run, jump, and throw stones.
“The old way is dead” doesn’t hold up in the arts like it does in the sciences. Technology moves on, but humans are the same. You can inspire and awe us today using the same tools and methods that were used hundreds or thousands of years ago.
Every art form you've mentioned still had to be created by a human. The only difference was how. Was it oil on canvas or stylus on Wacom? Was it film or digital? Is the synthesizer analog, digital or a VST plugin, and does it really matter as long as someone is still playing the keyboard with his own two hands?
AI has removed the human element entirely. This is a paradigm shift, and there's more merit in bemoaning using AI to wholesale generate a "photo" than there ever was in a film photographer bemoaning digital.
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This is myopic “Silicon Valley” rhetoric and lacks understanding of art or why it’s appreciated.
We have video cameras and movies, yet stage actors on Broadway are celebrated like movie stars. People still read books. We have cameras and photoshop, yet a huge market still exists for oil on canvas. We have synthesizers, drum kits, and all the tools we need to make music on a computer, yet live concerts with guitars and drums sell millions of tickets annually. We have the technology to deliver payloads on another continent with millimeter precision, yet every few years, the whole world gathers to watch people who have trained a lifetime to run, jump, and throw stones.
“The old way is dead” doesn’t hold up in the arts like it does in the sciences. Technology moves on, but humans are the same. You can inspire and awe us today using the same tools and methods that were used hundreds or thousands of years ago.
Every art form you've mentioned still had to be created by a human. The only difference was how. Was it oil on canvas or stylus on Wacom? Was it film or digital? Is the synthesizer analog, digital or a VST plugin, and does it really matter as long as someone is still playing the keyboard with his own two hands?
AI has removed the human element entirely. This is a paradigm shift, and there's more merit in bemoaning using AI to wholesale generate a "photo" than there ever was in a film photographer bemoaning digital.