Following up my preview journal about AI.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10877519/


The school of art where I got my art degree is now teaching generative AI.
A friend of mine showed me images and didn’t realize it was AI.
Artists on FA are getting banned, wrongly accused of using AI.

I have written about AI before, how it destroys creativity.
But AI is getting better and better in the technical aspect.
AI has become an art movement; just like the art movement called meme.
No longer are people content to express themselves using sketch drawings.
The eye candy art is back in full force: hyper-realism, micro-detail, 4K, super soft gradient transitions.
AI fits all the prerequisites of social media.
Instant gratification. Blitzering fast creation.
No development of an argument. Only sophism or propaganda.


But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of a bigger problem.

The fact that AI is stealing our data, our work, and spying on every corner of our lives is not just an AI problem;
this has been happening for a long time.
Privacy and copyright were never enough to hold back AI.

The biggest damage AI is doing is not about privacy or compensation.
For me, the biggest problem is the killing of creativity.

The problem goes back to when Netflix established the new business model:
content in large quantity above quality—recycling movies and regurgitating the same stuff over and over.
I think we all felt the problem: the lack of creativity. That was before AI art.

When artists say AI art has no soul, they really mean it.
It’s not about the perspective, the number of fingers, the anatomy, or any technical detail.
What AI lacks is human agency.
Text prompt vs. hand painting is a huge gap in decision-making.
And sadly, it hurts deeply in my heart. This gap will not be felt by amateur artists starting just now.

Human perception is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human experience is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human bias is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human mistakes are the artist’s most precious assets.

And all of that cannot be recreated using AI.

And if all that sounds like BS from an "artybollocks" generator.com:
Look more deeply into color theory—all the problems about human perception of color vs. how computers measure light.
Ask yourself why multimillion-dollar movies keep failing. Why do marketing research and consultocracy firms keep pushing the same formula again and again? Why are studios that replaced real artists with AI now regretting this decision?

Creativity can’t be easily manufactured. It doesn’t belong in an industry.
We live in a dystopian world where people think they are in control.
Where we are the product on social networks, yet we keep paying for subscriptions.
Where nothing is truly ours, and everything comes with planned obsolescence.
Where people use AI art, thinking they are the puppeteer, but instead, they are the puppets.

Keep that dream inside your heart. Don´t spoil it with AI generator.
You will be living someone else’s dream.