>>7985132 >>7985223 >>7985275the scribe produced manuscripts of (usually) very high artistic value and quality, but in only very minimal quantity, so that only a very lucky few could ever study and learn from the work
the printing press still required knowledge and skills to use well, but it eventually allowed for increased accessibility to accurate knowledge and the widespread education of the masses
computers then allowed for even greater accessibility to knowledge and education, as well they opened up various artforms (e.g. writing, painting, videography, music, etc.) to folks who otherwise might never have taken the plunge; existing knowledge and talent in the chosen medium helped with this, alternatively one could just rely on a lot of elbow grease along with asking the correct section of the internet for expert help and advice
AI now means that any crayon-eating fuckwit with a computer* can now claim to be an 'artist' with only a few button presses/mouse clicks, and in pretty much any artistic medium and style too; artistic knowledge and skills are basically no longer required because the computer is effectively doing all of the hard work, all the user has to do is 'borrow' someone else's work and feed it to the AI algorithms and then wait for the computer to shit out a result of variable quality
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*if you neither eat the crayons nor think you're a fuckwit, then I'm not talking about you...
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"Art" is a poncy term for craft combined with flair. - Hal Duncan (2006)
AI generated anything has neither any real flair nor requires any amount of craft on the part of the user, ergo AI generated anything can't ever be considered as "Art", so if you wanna be a writer/artist/musician/etc., by all means go for it, just don't rely on the computer to do it all for you
