Negotiations: AI replaces artists
We’ve come full circle. We’re all artists once again
AI lets you create art without learning traditional skills.
AI is a tool that gives anyone the ability to create art.
Some early human –– hundreds of thousands of years ago –– must have picked up a stick and delighted in drawing in the dirt. In a sense, that stick was the original universal drawing tool. Better yet, you could use a stick to tap out a beat. Sticks are universal musical instruments, too.
Time passed, and our tools became ever more sophisticated. Whether using a painter’s brush or a harp’s strings, our tools for making art became ever more complex, requiring training and skills. Artists were those who became adept at using the tools of art.
And artists became a class who used the tools of art to gain status and a livelihood with our art skills. I was one of those lucky enough to find my way in the world through my art and my creative nature.
Today, with AI, I see writers creating illustrations to accompany their writing, graphic designers becoming filmmakers with AI assistance, my own writing improving and attracting more followers with AI assistance, and so on.
Seeing all this, I wonder, I speculate, that AI is becoming a universal tool, like the stick we used long ago — a tool that makes it possible for all of us to exercise our creative nature and become artists.
Does it mean those of us, like myself, who spent our lives developing our creative skills are no longer relevant? No, it means we will see a flood of art unencumbered by training, which may let us know the spontaneity that early humans must have felt when drawing with a stick in the dirt.
Maybe AI will make it possible for us all to be artists again.
