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201 sats \ 4 replies \ @SimpleStacker 9 Apr \ on: An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force BooksAndArticles
I think people can feel useful, feel ownership, and take joy in the act of creation, even if it's AI-assisted.
My reaction is that if you're an artist whose job is easily replaceable by AI, then the pride you took in your work was less about the artistic creation and more about the technical skill of drawing, working with 3D models, etc.
Yes, the AI is probably going to replace much of your technical ability. But it won't replace your creativity, your agency, and most importantly, your taste.
Develop those three latter skills and you should still be very productively employed in the arts, I would guess.
It's interesting to note that "taste" was one of the metrics of advancement in the recent AI 2027 writeup. I think it's a good idea to develop it, but nothing uniquely human about it. No lasting buffer there.
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Taste is a tricky ephemeral thing though. Even if an AI's algo can quantify taste, which it probably can (to some extent), will the taste always be backward looking?
Moreover, will AI ever grow a backbone and tell the user that the user's taste is bad? And stand firm and say, "No, we're going with my vision, it's better."
And... even if it does, what if the user is right and the AI is wrong?
So many questions to think about
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Would be a mixed bag, imo, resembling the emergent culture around wine snobs and literary douchebags. Taste is so overwhelmingly a cultural signaling mechanism. But maybe something awesome would arise, too.
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