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I don't see how rephrasing things changes much. The situation is still that the people who gain the power to make shit are unmotivated people with no actual skill in the art. They don't magically make good content now that they have AI because they are still unmotivated people with no actual skill and giving them AI doesn't change that. They still require thousands upon thousands of hours of practice to understand and improve in the skill of writing to actually form a decent script, and if they really had such motivation for writing they would be putting it to use and practice without the AI.
I disagree. It's about having a brain that is interested in it, or having parents that can pay a tutor to whack a child's hands with a ruler every time they don't focus on the piano keys but that's a different kind of motivation through force. Real genuine motivation comes from interest, it stops being work and it is basically play for that brain. Not that this changes anything, interest and "brain that works" are still ultimately the same thing in practice, just different interpretations of the mechanism. I think what you're trying to suggest though is wrong, neurotypical people struggle with the motivational requirement to become artists as much as neurodivergent people, their brains still work, they just want to play instead of doing what they perceive as work because the interest isn't there. It's a little spark that makes the art activity into something as fulfilling and enjoyable as playing the videogame is for everyone else.
I take adhd meds too. They don't fix motivation, merely focus.
Depression, notably, saps all interest in doing anything. Interest isn't a choice either, it's just something that happens to you.
Or doesn't.
There is a fundamental unfairness to talent that I just don't think you're acknowledging.
What I do agree with is that AI isn't some instant-win cheat code to making great art. If they lack the interest, the motivation, to put in the work then their AI slop is only ever going to be slop. Though, maybe, they won't have to put in quite as many thousands of hours. It can be like the difference between being talented with hand sewing vs being talented with a sewing machine. Making a beautiful dress requires hard work whether you do it by hand or with a machine, but it's certainly a lot easier and faster with a machine.
Also, executive function disorder is hell. It doesn't matter if you have interests and want to do things. You just don't do them, and hate yourself for it.
I don't see what there is to acknowledge here? The argument is semantics, we're saying the exact same ultimate thing in terms of outcomes. Every point I've made about AI remains the same. These people still remain bad at creating because they do not practice and improve due to their lack of "talent" as you put it, I feel that I put in the much friendlier terms by saying it is lack of practice due to motivation and I very much dislike this "talent" shit because it feels like bioessentialism.
It doesn't matter which wording is used here either way, the outcome is literally the same, a bunch of hacks being given AI doesn't produce good content. The people with the "talent" to improve are already producing content and improving their skills.
I dont see how AI makes any if this better
I am having a rainy arts and crafts day after a busy yesterday of working in fancy restaurant on mother's day. I am building models and painting display stuff for ones ive already built. It is fun and relaxing. I do some painting and then do some building while the paint dries and im watching movies at the same time. Its a good day. At the end of the day, putting in prompts for an AI all day instead would probably kill my soul. Making art is fun. This tskes away the fun part. I made a post earlier in the thread that as a toddler I just filled a page with drawings and then threw it out and started the next. My parents had to tell me that I should be saving the good ones which implies I should be trying to make a good one each time, at 34 I can say they were wrong as hell. The finished product is a brief moment of moderate satisfaction cause you will always see the flaws no one else will. The best part is making the damn thing. I am altering the real world to match or express my imagination as best as I can. AI can never ever do that. I like digital art and like playing with it, but even that feels a bit removed from real tangible stuff for me. Photoshop is fun, editing film and music digitally is just way easier, but I have done the analogue version of both and theyre a lot more fun. It stinks.