chocobitz825
Senior Member
I think if we're optimistic we've assumed that since the mass commercialization of art, it was always for the sake of art, but I think the true focus of the industry hasn't changed. Create content for profit. Whatever value we feel art and culture have in the world, it's most likely secondary to the desire to consume, and be a part of a large social experience.Maybe. Or they will break the current system, but won't be able to establish a coherent market for AI produced content, sort of like what happened with NFTs, except they will destroy some of the most important industries and professions that current society uses to reproduce itself (education, culture and entertainment, journalism, medicine, law, etc.) in the process. I see that as a definite possible outcome, and perhaps even the most likely. In any case I would say the future on all of this is most cloudy. Yes, money tends to win in the end, and will almost certain do so in this case too, but the way it ends up winning is not generally the way anyone can predict, at least in part because it is hard to say who now has the decisive coin that will be leveraged into the ultimate hoard.
AI will change everything. Not for the better in our industries, but it will provide for people. This is a fight we can't win if we're thinking AI or nothing. The best we can hope for is that AI is of some use to us in our professional fields.