>>5501741>you surrender typing to a word processor that is convenient (unless you were employed as a typist).Typing, maybe... But typewriters and printing presses were THEMSELVES automation of a prior career, and the elimination or reducing a distinctive art. Look at old handwritten manuscripts, especially illuminated ones, or at Asian or Middle Eastern calligraphy. There was a soul and artistry there which typefaces gobbled up and regurgitated in a simplified form. Some people can still make money designing fonts, or curating different typefaces, or even doing hand-written calligraphy, but never again will entire families or monasteries practice and perfect the beautiful and dexterous art of bespoke, custom strokes of brush and pen such as was the case in the past.
>This AI automated imagination is the opposite of being challenged, it is just input some text prompts to magically obtain generic safe instagram pinterest art styles. >The idea is not just the nudity violence or eroticism censorship, the automated imagination has been trained on certain data aesthetics eg LAION and it is biased in indiscernible ways. There was a thing about how early on AI had issues generating women because so much pornography had to be removed from the training set, and all the women generated were in bikinis afterwards. pol trolled the Chinese anime generators (it was funny) and showed how they simply could not generate any black people at all, just replaced all of them with disturbing generic animeface lol. >Maybe there is some subtle censorship being promulgated that will deny any satire written featuring political figures, or celebrities, or brand names with "objectionable content", or enforce positive fictional depictions of certain races or genders or religions... etc. What you're describing here are mostly challenges (technical and legal) to the technology, not permanent and inherent limitations. That's a "for better or worse" statement, btw. The AI will learn to represent more varieties of art, more types of people. This is a downside in that more sorts of art will become automatable, but an upside in that that black people, non-sexualized women, and a wider variety of art styles and subject matter will become accessible by means of one AI or another rather than being automated out of existence/popular imagination. If there are any that AI genuinely won't or can't touch, I guarantee that people will keep producing those, creating a niche for human artists without AI assistance.
