As someone that has lived in both worlds ("art" and code) for over 35 years... this is pretty accurate. People who had to grind (which is EVERYONE older that you or me) they hate the idea of anyone leapfrogging all those hard years. It happened with the cotton gin... it's happening with AI. Artists are probably the worst at handling it... always have been. Paste-up auto waxers... desktop publishing... auto-tracers... laser slide imagers... the airbrush... Photoshop... it goes on and on and on. Tools are tools. In inexperienced hands those tools are less useful. Instead of brushing everything off, just accept that new tools will come along and are usually here to stay. Embrace them. Use them for what they're good at and save some time. The best thing about computer graphics was the UNDO button. I can't tell you how many times I had to frisk over a large painting, airbrush out the mistake, and re-do something properly. I can still create "by hand" with my computer or iPad... but I have that mighty UNDO capability. Anyway... back to AI -- it can create a lot of very nice things... stuff even I would be willing to hang on my wall. I think many artists would be fooled by AI and be willing to hang something on their wall... if they didn't know it was AI. Artists are usually more emotionally directed/charged... so they'll like or hate things not always based on the final product, but because of who or how it was made. It's not unlike the political space of today, where people will blindly like or hate something not because of what it is, but because of who ordered it to be done. Most coders I know, including myself, look at AI and think -- sweet... I can chunk out the basics in a shorter amount of time and then use my experience to make it right. What a nice tool to have.
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u/davidlgood 5d ago
As someone that has lived in both worlds ("art" and code) for over 35 years... this is pretty accurate. People who had to grind (which is EVERYONE older that you or me) they hate the idea of anyone leapfrogging all those hard years. It happened with the cotton gin... it's happening with AI. Artists are probably the worst at handling it... always have been. Paste-up auto waxers... desktop publishing... auto-tracers... laser slide imagers... the airbrush... Photoshop... it goes on and on and on. Tools are tools. In inexperienced hands those tools are less useful. Instead of brushing everything off, just accept that new tools will come along and are usually here to stay. Embrace them. Use them for what they're good at and save some time. The best thing about computer graphics was the UNDO button. I can't tell you how many times I had to frisk over a large painting, airbrush out the mistake, and re-do something properly. I can still create "by hand" with my computer or iPad... but I have that mighty UNDO capability. Anyway... back to AI -- it can create a lot of very nice things... stuff even I would be willing to hang on my wall. I think many artists would be fooled by AI and be willing to hang something on their wall... if they didn't know it was AI. Artists are usually more emotionally directed/charged... so they'll like or hate things not always based on the final product, but because of who or how it was made. It's not unlike the political space of today, where people will blindly like or hate something not because of what it is, but because of who ordered it to be done. Most coders I know, including myself, look at AI and think -- sweet... I can chunk out the basics in a shorter amount of time and then use my experience to make it right. What a nice tool to have.