technology

Speaking as a creative; I highly doubt that the current inception of llms would make anything easier for artists. Because the current inception of llms work in a way that completely destroys the balance of artistic community by flattening everyone into "a model to be used" or a "lora to be used." It turns the work and time of millions of people into an anonymous masturbatory vending machine.

When Llm's came out i tried using them in my work and i came to the conclusion that as part of an artistic community and someone who respects the other workers in it; It is insidious to instrumentalize their work for my gains and in the end; If the output looks like an artist that i respect and admire; What does that make of me? I am effectively severing myself from the rest of the community by abusing the work of others. I am also suppressing my own voice; Showing no confidence in my own voice by taking the work of others.

I feel in a non capitalist system Llms for art would not be necessary because your voice would be valued without putting a price tag on your individual skill. When you decouple art from it's status as a product, it becomes all about personality and community. Art becomes a community effort, the sum of the people's subjectivity.

LLm's exist because you need to extract value from every worker while giving them little to no value back. Capitalism is inherently predatory and voracious. Hence there is no respect for others or their communities. Only arriving as a colonizer to take everything that is human, making it cold and lifeless and putting a price tag on it.

The technology could have interesting uses in capitalist creative industries. Automatic retopology for 3D modelers ; 3d animation simplification by mixing motion capture training with hand animation; The afore mentioned automatic coloring of animation frames, and 2d/3d hybrid pipelines using normal map generators. The problem is: Capitalist systems will always want it all, not just some of it. They will trample on anyone and devour all resources and give nothing back. Hence it will always be an abusive tech for capitalist lords. And it will always ran out of human capital, destroy it and find it self in a barren wasteland of it's own making. Capitalism is a destructor of ecological balance both in the natural world and subjective, (ideological) landscape.

In a communist system, it won't matter how much time it takes to finish a creative product, because their value is inherently social, not monetary. You don't need to ultra optimize creative work in a post scarcity society. You can even call as many people as you need to collaborate. In fact in a post scarcity society, creativity would be a valuable glue for social cohesion. So why use an llm trained on human capital when you have all that humanity eager to help?