It may be clearer to those of you who are smarter than me, but I guess I've only recently begun to appreciate what these experiments show--that AI graphical art, literature, music and the like will not succeed in lowering the barriers to humans making things via machines but in training humans to respond to art that is generated by machines. Art will not be challenging but designed by the algorithm to get us to like it. Since such art can be generated for essentially no cost, it will follow a simple popularity model, and will soon suck like your Netflix feed.
> Since such art can be generated for essentially no cost, it will follow a simple popularity model, and will soon suck like your Netflix feed.
I'm not so sure. Considering how successful AI-driven social media feeds are, which already include substantial AI-generated content, why would a feed consisting entirely of such content be any less successful? The quality will only keep increasing.
> Art will not be challenging but designed by the algorithm to get us to like it.
I don't think these advancements are a threat to art created by humans, just as any art created by humans isn't a threat to other art. It's just... more art.
Eventually, AI will be capable of being truly creative, instead of being trained on human art and producing permutations of it, which will also be wonderful.
The role of humans will be to train these models to produce art we find enjoyable. Imagine if your AI media feed was an infinite stream of artworks personalized just for your taste. It will be TikTok on steroids. I can't say I'm thrilled by that prospect, because it will also be used for exploiting users, but the entertainment potential is huge.
Right now, the AI is trained on mostly human generated art. It will be interesting to see what happens when the training set itself is mostly AI generated. The role of the "artist" in the future will not be to create art directly, but to influence art by manipulating the training set. For instance an artist who can flood the Internet with a trillion captioned images will be able to spawn an art movement, even if it short lived.
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