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I have devoted a large part of my life to understanding the craft of filmmaking & the human care and ingenuity that goes into making moving images. I now read hundreds of comments of AI simps thrilled that the “tools are being democratized.” There’s a deep resentment of artists
As if every barrier to making art was just arbitrary, as if it was all just “gatekeeping.” We are learning now and about to learn much more about what a world where “anyone can make anything” looks like, without traditional barriers of training, discernment, or collaboration
it’s a world stuffed full to the gills with what’s essentially litter Infinite production, carelessly done, as easy to make as it is to discard Real artists will continue to work but it will require everyone who cares to work harder, to sift through the trash to find them
I posted a thread about this in March when the Ghibli trend happened. My thoughts are basically the same but now about any given moving image. Obviously there’s a lot of grief that comes with that as someone who cares about the moving image as a miracle of human creativity
@lauren_wilford > it will require everyone who cares to work harder, to sift through the trash to find them this is everything IMO. filtration used to happen pre-creation. now the mouth of the funnel has widened exponentially, so we just need better curation. https://t.co/P1P2LH6wUk
This is one of my (probably obvious) theses in the age of AI: In the same way that value is accruing to the app (& not model) layer, value will accrue to the curation (& not generation) layer. Slop is 100x’ing. Trusted filtration & curation will be exponentially more important.
@lauren_wilford While I largely agree with the sentiment, again I think it's important to remember that this has all happened before, many times. Printing press, camera, record player, drum machine, etc. It's smart to be wary, but humans have a very strong tendency towards creativity.
@ifeelbig All the times it happened before it did actually change society, and I think printing press is the only thing that comes close in terms of magnitude. I agree that the flame will burn on and people will find a way but I don’t think it’s a good idea to underestimate the seriousness
@lauren_wilford I'm not saying to underestimate! It will be a big change. My point is more to be very specific about what's actually happening. E.g., not sure that post AI images "no longer mean anything." They have meaning still. What they don't do is communicate as directly the author's will.
@lauren_wilford We now live in a world where reasonably convincing images and series of images can be conjured up on demand. The immediate effect is a lot of slop. But the longer-term effects are likely to be more complicated than that and I just think it's worth really hashing it out.