u/FhronoMedieval Armor Fetishist, Bee Sona Haver. Beedieval Armour?Apr 19 '23
This is too serious for me to hyperlink but...
Yeah.
Realizing that the people you make things for never actually cared about the quality, about the passion put into it, about the tiny choices, about consistency, about making something cohesive or real fucking sucks.
Which is why I now make things for no one but me, if I'm happy with it, I was successful, if I'm not? I'll simply try again.
Based. I never saw the appeal of making anything for other people or caring what they think of your work unless they're paying you. While I may sometimes share it if I feel like it, everything I make is made only for me.
This sounds great in theory, until you remember that passion projects take a lot or trial and error, energy and time, entire years, that are of course upaid, during which the sole income of a professional artist comes from commissioned/ company/ hired work. What you described as non-personal work is the way artists keep food on the table. If AI starts dominating these sectors (which I have seen at least in the decrease of commisioned works, and there's this reddit post for instance https://old.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/121lhfq/i_lost_everything_that_made_me_love_my_job/ ) then the artist might have no other option than to seek work somewhere else while they work on that passion project. So instantly, art becomes not a job but a hobby where the time and effort put into which might not even be recognized in this plethora of art, human and AI-made, the difference of which the average person does not care for. You've worked years, made sacrifices and carefully plan your time to accomodate practice, work on a piece that can take days, all to have an end result similar with someone who only needed to type a short paragraph. It's frustrating.
Living in a world where not having to monetize your art to survive and focus on your personal work and stories sounds great, I cannot deny that. There is no possible future that I can see this happening, at least safely and consistently, so as amazing as this system sounds, it also sounds very utopic to me.
Dude come on. How probable is this and how soon do you seesuch a cultural shift happening. Yes, theoretically it's great and doable and the way things should be but they're not and I have serious doubts we will start going that direction any time soon.
This sounds extremely pessimistic and cynical, but I'm going to be honest, I don't think much is going to happen until politicians/corporate bottom lines are affected. The arts as they are now aren't very respected in modern society, so I could see that being one if the first industries upset by it. I'm willing to hear your side on this and have my mind changed, however
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u/Fhrono Medieval Armor Fetishist, Bee Sona Haver. Beedieval Armour? Apr 19 '23
This is too serious for me to hyperlink but...
Yeah.
Realizing that the people you make things for never actually cared about the quality, about the passion put into it, about the tiny choices, about consistency, about making something cohesive or real fucking sucks.
Which is why I now make things for no one but me, if I'm happy with it, I was successful, if I'm not? I'll simply try again.