I’ve been following the discourse in AI software development, especially in the game development spaces, and the eagerness of people sharing their creations I think speaks to people’s desire to create, which I think is a good thing. Yet, they tout their ignorance as some kind of badge of honor. Them declaring they did a thing without knowing an ounce of programming, art, design, or writing I think is a sad outcome. To embark on creating a thing and be left mostly unchanged by it is a very new kind of experience. When the artist is left largely unchanged, it is unsurprising to me that those that view it are left wanting.
Historically when asked, “did you make that?”, you could have some small sense of pride in knowing you did. And if asked to do it again you could. And in a lot of cases, you could do it better, as you learned throughout the process. Now? Now your ability to repeat that skill is dependent on whether you have an active subscription and/or enough money to pay for an AI model to churn through that process again. In some ways, we’ve boiled down the creative process to exactly correlate with the dollar amount spent. This feels like the worst version of “time is money”.