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I get where the artist is coming from and I largely agree. However when he says that consumers don’t like consuming AI art, I think he’s biased by being surrounded by consumers who like his art.
The average Joe does not care if it’s AI art. People with good taste generally do care, but most people have terrible taste. That is why AI art is taking the world by storm - it’s good enough to get mass appeal even though it’s objectively worse than a real artist.
Agreed. AI slop is literally everywhere. It has ultra saturated the internet more than I think any of us are even really aware of. The fact that there are countless AI generated articles, images, videos, songs, etc that are getting millions and millions of human engagement says all we need to know.
After playing Cyberpunk 2077 a few years ago and now witnessing the rise of hyper AI slopdom, I genuinely believe we'll hit a point where we have to count the current Internet as a lost cause and create a new one that's fully firewalled from the old one. Bots will only get smarter, more efficient, and more numerous as the AI era marches onwards. It's catapulting us further and further into a post-truth society, causing immeasurable damage. With the way the Internet is structured and engineered, there's no effective way of battling it. The current Internet belongs to AI/bots, and countless people are completely fine with it and/or happily ignorant of it.
I put AI art with memes. Specifically the memes that are text over an image.
They are a way for someone who has an idea to share, but not the means to create it. It's just a little joke, and if we laugh, we appreciate it for what it is, a good idea.
Are people buying the AI art? That's really the question. If artists can't sustain themselves, then they'll have to go into other industries. The pocketbooks are really what is going to decide the future here.
Anecdotally, yes, my artist friends have seen a decline in commissions because it’s so easy and cheap for people to do “good enough” for their D&D character portraits and the like.
Objectively? X doubt