Not exactly everyone. I will continue to pay artists for their art. Once the AI will train mostly on derivative works produced by itself, with most artists whose work was used without asking to originally train the AI out of business, it will be very fun. Those who will be able to use all that stuff as a new kind of raw material to create pristine art will be a tiny minority, and it will really be a new chapter in the art book. For everybody else, the marvellous AI will be in the hands of the lords of social media, producing an infinite stream of uninsteresting stuff you love watching while scrolling the infinitely long page depicting the sterile desert we contributed to create teaching the machine what we like and what we don't. Very fun, indeed. An AI generated mirror of our mediocrity, with no way out. And please, don't start telling me that our brains work the same and that every piece of art is derivative work. Human beings are a little bit more complex than a neural network.
Hm, new chapter sure. What about the aesthetics? 20th century art (architecture primarily, but also paintings, etc.) expresses feelings mostly because with the advent of tech (photography, etc.). I get that there was no need to improve upon what we had in terms of sculptures (Greek-Roman, etc.)s and artists nowadays are all about originality... But modern art is ugly AF compared to past centuries. Poor aesthetics are everywhere, from the way we dress, to the way we build... Even when budget is a non-issue.
Take any 8th-BC-to-17th-AD art-form and compare it to a modern counter-part and you'll see what I mean. I feel that most 20th century art-form won't survive the next 200 years for good reason.
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