pull down to refresh
Honestly, I think more and more artistic talent will be rewarded by a small cohort of people (hopefully including some generous wealthy benefactors) who greatly appreciate the quality and effort of the work and the artist themselves. The less intellectually capable will be babysat by bots and mindlessly consume their AI content. How is that any different from the buzzfeed shitfarm they were already voluntarily submitting themselves to? It's just an automated way of producing lukewarm mostly bland slop for the masses, the food made to be passable to everyone's tastes, but a favorite to none. I think we discussed it before, but I think the true creator does so because they have to. They have to get it out, so maybe the volume of quality creators will fall, but those remaining are truly doing it out of a genuine need for expression and not fame or approval or money (money will always be a part of it in some sense though).
There's something beautiful about that kind of forgery. Now the creation of those paintings will echo throughout time. The forgerer must painstakingly follow the techniques of the original painter in order to pass off his work. The painting itself doesn't just last forever, the act of painting it lasts forever as well. Now many more people can enjoy a high quality echo of the original without having to compete for the only decent one.
It's up to @stasher ofc, but I'm strongly against hiding names (not because I have a recognizable one ffs!), but because the authorship and the human behind something is the most important and precious thing (at least for me), and increasingly so in the age of "all perfect, high-quality bots".
In the age of bots that can produce unlimited text with perfect quality in any style, I personally not going to upvote any posts or comments, however great they are, unless I know a real human is behind them! (We already have fckg bot farming here!). The author is what makes a painting cost millions: e.g. there's a whole village in China (Dafen Oil Painting Village in Shenzhen) where skilled painters have spent decades reproducing Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, and others on an industrial scale, often at quality that fools non-experts (and sometimes experts!). One guy, Zhao Xiaoyong, alone copied over 100,000 Van Goghs: same brushwork, same colors, but the original still costs a million times more because of the human who made it.
@SoulReaver, you know how many impersonator scammers are on bazaar who spend hours scamming for 20 bucks. I can already see that if we anonymize authors, someone will point their clanker at the "most popular authors'" feeds/Substacks and ask it to produce "in the same style" just to get tipped here lol :)))
Also, in the attempt to create the most perfect and fair thing, you might end up in a soulless botroom. I wrote about related themes here: https://x.com/themerit0crat/status/1993545714677264463 original ↗
The human signal is what keeps this place worth being in (for me at least... you do you, ofc: I never tell others what they should do "I'm a voluntaryist in earthly terms", and you can talk to your perfect clankers that can produce infinite walls of perfect quality text).
One friend just called the Bob Dylan's painting from my last letter "awful AI slop, not even a good one." Another said the whole piece "feels AI-generated". People’s attitudes are messed up in an interesting way: they can’t differentiate anymore: everything is suspect as AI slop.… twitter.com/themerit0crat/status/1993391816381808806