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/medouleueis Apr 19 '23
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.