Rick and morty's inter-dimensional television will fall short.
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It is very likely that you have heard about how actors and companies in Hollywood signed an agreement after the biggest actors' strike in history . What was one of the causes of that stoppage? Exactly, the popularization of AI, are we really facing a paradigm shift in the art/audiovisual world or this is just the hype of two or three people? In this article we will try to glimpse the keys to the past, present and future of AI in art. To do this we will let our imagination fly, try to bring order to the chaos and see where things are likely to go as technology evolves.
<aside> 💡 It is important to remember that many parts of this article will be just my opinion added to my own technoptimist imagination, it remains to be seen how technology will evolve, I doubt that half of the things written here will be fulfilled in the short term, although sometimes it is interesting to fantasize and raise scenarios of this type.
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Meme from before AIs existed that exemplifies how artists wanted facilities for their work.
Before we go into the future let's travel to the past because to understand how technology will develop we must understand how art has been messed up throughout history and why it is not as pure as some people would have you believe, thus answering the question why many of the authors of the past would have taken AIs (despite their ethical problems) as a tool without thinking about it:
Art has always had opportunists who employed new tools to take their idea to a new level either by working on something already existing, or by simplifying processes, plus taking inspiration has always been present, indeed, phrases like Picasso's "great artists steal" show this eagerness to take advantage.
Author taking advantage of the darkroom technique, to make a tremendous painting that will make him famous (in the end it is only a faithful copy of reality).
The importance of the techniques, the intentionality, the artistic merit, or the quality has always varied depending on the time and the facilities or the technology that was developing at the same time: For example, many authors took advantage of the invention of the camera, other authors for example began to take advantage of advances in the digital era to have facilities such as the delete or undo button in Photoshop.
These tools have simplified the artistic process, losing a lot of effort and other qualities along the way.
And the general appreciation of people has not been the same either, before people went for example to the theater to gossip or talk, there are also many rich people who use art not as something to admire but as a symbol of their status by buying expensive paintings just to boast of having them, art has been soiled of "bad intentions" throughout history.
Frame from "Amadeus" that shows the rubbing shoulders between the upper classes and artists.
In the present, fortunately, art is freer than ever despite being facing one of its biggest crises, we can use any means of expression, we can make art with anything.
Urban art.
The AI does nothing but present another step in this long road in which art has been transforming itself biased by human selfish nature and the desire for curiosity and self-improvement.
The top 5 series that occupy the top ratings on Filmaffinity in the year 2023 are animation
The only way in which art can reach a young society that seeks greater "stimulation" is that it evolves towards new horizons, in this way we have films like Kimetsu no Yaiba and series like Jujutsu kaizen, that can have the simplest and most generic story in the world but that appeal to the public because of their technical polish and spectacularity (and because they follow the previous principle of stimulation) formulas such as Marvel, or the infinite Hollywood remakes no longer appeal and lost their success because they stopped stimulating at the moment they sought to create "a formula" nothing feels new, it seems like the same story.
Just as streaming managed to evolve to become the preferred way to consume music, AI will foster the growth of new alternative media, which will move millions.
In turn, other new industries such as streaming and gaming are taking precedence over more physical arts:
How many young people today go to see the opera or theater? How many however watch TikTok every day or prioritize their spending on video games over other entertainment such as movies? The artistic value is being relegated to a small niche, the mass of people love to consume infinitely and the trend looks like it will continue over time, increasingly limiting support for physical art (as long as it is perceived as unstimulating or has too many disadvantages).
A mimir.
