There you go. We were promised quite far fetched things like 'flying cars', 'time travel', 'life extension' and 'universal basic income'.
Instead we get Deep Learning AI's being used for generating and faking sentences, images, videos, voices, code and digital art all being trained on mountains of data in data centers all significantly contributing to the already burning up of the planet to no benefit and no efficient alternatives.
A dystopian future with deepfakes and easy fake news creation thanks to the technologists who helped create those things for others to create a new griftopia on top of that.
So you will own nothing, believe everything that you see on the internet, and be very happy.
If we had time travel, they’d say now someone can kill our granddads and rewrite history. If we had flying cars, they’d say now our flats are worthless because everyone can fly by and gaze. If we had universal basic income, they’d say something about it too.
It’s really nice that we only got AIs that draws pictures and bitcoin that helps with stolen money.
Tune out the news and look for a futurism themed news source[0], and you can get your techno-optimistic pipe dreams back, right now. What you describe as "we were promised" and "we got" is just you seeing a bit more of the world. It was filled with empty promises and horrors in the beforetimes too, today's flavor is nothing special - just in its specifics for today's culture. And there's also plenty of people doing great things in the past too, perhaps not promising those things, just living their life doing something they believe in, and getting results.
My point being, there's enough good things and bad things to fit any mood and worldview. Everyone can basically pick as they'd like.
You must be kidding it’s hard labor creating images and you are complaining that it’s going to be easier in the future? You are complaining that the skill gap is eradicated and it now only depends on your ideas to produce compelling work? That’s absolutely insane everything that takes labor intensive tasks and makes them basically free is the future. This is not dystopian it’s our future, a future in which you and your capabilities don’t matter. It’s exactly the future we need and doing it opensource is exactly the way to keep it out of harms way of turbo capitalism. You are missing the point so hard it’s not even funny. Flying cars for the 1% is dystopian.
The skill gap was what made it valuable. There is not that much value in flooding everyone with generated images that have no story, no person behind it, no effort, no reason to exist, out of place. “Art” is as much about the final image as it is about the person who made it, why she made it and how she got there.
Also there is pretty dystopian angle because these tools balantly stole all the work of artists by “learning” on their work (without pemission). Calling it learning is too nice we all know its just huge visual pattern copy mashup paste machine. People are not gonna invent with this - they just add name of artist they like to the prompt and get to call that their work.
Its not liberation - its exploitation. Its gonna destroy peoples lives by making their hard earned skills obsolete.
Then again it probably wont be so bad. Artists wont disappear and people wont suddenly become artists just because they can write into prompt.
You in 1894: Why does no one think about all the horses and stable boys.
The value of art is also not in the hours you put into creating it it's about the idea behind it and how it's conveyed. Artists are also always stealing especially concept artists the only thing to say is "photobashing". You talk like someone who has absolutely no idea how the sausage is made.
Yes, yes and invention of camera will kill painters. Sure everybody knows this.
But there is important difference between someone stealing and some algorithm copy replicating anything from the past in instant. One is a remix that brings something new (even if author doesn't want) the other in static its conservation. It will create side effects that will impact our (visual) culture. But who knows what those will be.
Not sure why i deserve so much toxicity. We obviously work in different fields and have different view of what art actually is. No i am not happy to jump on AI bandwagon that will surely mean even faster pace and more precarious working conditions because individuals surely wont reap the benefits of automation. It's easy to not care when you are not affected.
None of that mean that i deserve the hate. It's just a different opinion.
Instead we get Deep Learning AI's being used for generating and faking sentences, images, videos, voices, code and digital art all being trained on mountains of data in data centers all significantly contributing to the already burning up of the planet to no benefit and no efficient alternatives.
A dystopian future with deepfakes and easy fake news creation thanks to the technologists who helped create those things for others to create a new griftopia on top of that.
So you will own nothing, believe everything that you see on the internet, and be very happy.