Raw LLM Responses

The debate is anything but new. Every new technology in culture has threatened the former ways. Gutenberg's printing press meant largely the end of handwriting books. Still, as a art form it has remained, as calligraphy and in other forms. The car made all who worked around horses and carriages unemployed, and yet people train, ride and enjoy horses if they wish. Photography was vehemently opposed by painters, and understandably so. The era of one like J.C. Leyendecker ended with Photography, but still people today paint on canvas despite that. Then the CGI Art came and tradtional artists again rebelled, saying digital art is no art at all. Seriously. When will the lesson be learned? You cannot put back the spirit into the bottle, once it is out. AI Art will have limits and chances, like any other new way to create. Does the photographer create? No, his way to make art is by making a CHOICE. He picks of many moment and vistas a few, and through his selective eye photography is art. Same as CGI animation can be or film can be art. AI ist just another means. And you complain it steals, or so you say. First, that is simply on a technical level not how AI works. It learns EXACTLY the way a human learns, exactly the way Ethan Becker has taught countless people: by learning from existing at and in a form of neural network developing something out of it. The loss of each progress was that the small elite got robbed of their exclusivity, and belonging to that I understand hurts. But imagine a world, where every person can create some idea, an image, an animation, a composition of music, make visible or audible his or her inner dreams, sort of "democratizing the formerly aristocratic art". Sure, flying in an airplane robbed the sky of their mystery and took away our experience of the journey, and using a fast train never will give you the social experience I had in my youth driving trains. But people still hike in nature and travel slowly if so they wish. But it is not cheapened to hike, just because cheap travel is now affordable to everyone. The value of a painting made by an individual will always be clear to those who can see. But if I make AI art, I go through dozens, sometimes hundred of iterations, dancing a dance with the AI, sometimes it is what I had in mind, sometimes it is less, and a surprise more than something I aimed for. People fight so often against change. They are so focussed on their risk, and just as we see here with blind furor want to preserve their monopoly of a thing. But answer me this: does Picasso's family have the sole right on Cubism? Does the Manga style belong to the first person making a Manga? Does the way to draw noses, eyes, trees belong to anyone? Or: when you learned, did you not, as Mr Becker said so often, copy copy copy? Now we have a new machine, a new tool. And foolish as ever people fight against the inevitable change. Like against the printing press, against cars, against photography, against digital art, against cgi. I mean, seriously: how many people of all who paint can in 2022 actually even live from art? That ended a century ago with the last painters like Picasso or Leyendecker. Beside a very, vers small elite, 99% of even very good artists never will see a dime for their art. Even on Deviant Art, there are 100s of masterpieces published daily. That is the result of the "Mass Society". 1000s of people now write novels. But only one in a millions write a Harry Potter. But should we be forbidden to use Wizards, Elves and mystical quests because Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings? No my friends. Humanity was always richer, when things were no longer monopolized, for if your art becomes part of the entire human experience, is that NOT the greatest achievement of all, far greater than any money or fame of your name? Fear not things just because they are new. Humans are inventive and will always invent new ways to create and to achieve. Being able to drive a car did not make running sports obsolete. And so AI will not make traditional art obsolete. It will just be added to the ever growing diversity of methods.