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Creativity has long been a debunker’s favorite when he’s trying to show the rough — often horrible — appoximation, an unreasonable facsimile of the human mind and of human intelligence that falls short of the question to which you might answer “But can a machine do that?” has always been, “No humans only can.” From a painter’s brush to a composer’s symphony, art has always been a deeply personal – and often painful – endeavor. But what if the canvas painted itself? What if the music could write itself? This is science fiction, nothing more. Generative AI is not simply the next natural step in human innovation, but rather a new age in the act of creating — one that will revolutionize entire industries, and even the conversation between humans and technology.
Such so-called generative AI, made possible by legions of powerful computers and algorithms like OpenAI’s GPT-2, will be capable of producing content so “real,” humans won’t easily be able to distinguish this bot-written text from a piece of prose penned by mortal from flesh and blood. Unlike earlier tools aiding humans with the creative, these models have taken on the role of collaborator, muse and even co-creator. The truth is tectonic, its aftershocks are being felt in all sorts of corners of the creative industries, shaping everything from graphic design and advertising to the movie business and music.
A Broader Palette for the Fine and Design Arts
Nowhere is the influence of generative AI more obvious, perhaps, than in the visual arts and design. With tools like Midjourney, DALL-E and Stable Diffusion, the art of creating marquee graphics has been democratized, so any schmo with a few words to hand can be let loose to scribble down a magicked-uply complex and fanciful scene. And that is a radical shift of approach for graphic designers. Instead of spending hours on concept sketches, or on the hunt for stock images they can manipulate, they use A.I. to spew out dozens of versions very quickly, to iterate their concepts faster than ever before. Now you can throw together a mood board — a sort of cocktail-fruit salad of visual inspiration for a client — in five minutes flat. You do not need an expensive budget to create a good logo design as a business.
But this is not about making human designers obsolete. Instead, it’s whether we’re giving them the tools they need to succeed. Basic AI becomes a designer’s creative assistant, taking on the boring and repetitive work, and letting the designer flit around in their head at higher levels like artistic direction, cognitive resonance. And the future of design is probably a hybrid: the human capability of creativity would leverage machine’s computational power.
The Symphony of Code — Generative AI in music and sound
But in music, generative A.I. is sounding its own chords. Apps such as Amper Music and Soundraw can create original audio tracks and soundscapes across many genres, such as cinematic scores and podcast background music. This is exactly what I wanted as a content creator who needed original music fast and cheap. Instead of having to license costly music, a YouTuber can crank out a custom-made piece of music that perfectly matches the mood and length of the video.
For the pros, generative A.I. is not a threat, but a novel tool. You can also use it to create lists of your favorite chord progressions or to create chord progressions for your songs, similar to how we did in this article.), is perfect for long bus rides or long train rides or any other moment that you have to waste but you don’t want to spend it doing nothing, playing the shit out of your Pianobox.most common chord progressions mellow without a piano you fucker even lead whatever you want to do and follow. It’s an infinite synthesizer, or some other form of digital sideman — and a spring of potentially endless creative inspiration. For an artist, AI can act as an aid to bursting through creative barriers, in the exploration of a new sound, or the physical limits of what is possible. In this sense, the human is not really just creating, but arranging, conducting, and innovating the AI into a specific art style.
The AI That Writes Movie Scripts and Games)throws the door open just a crack.
Film making and content creating is ready for the new wave of innovation, too. And now, from scripting support to full-on, fully-animated scenes, the place we’re taking them is A.I.” AI models could assist writers, brainstorming plot points, character dialogue, or even handle multiple scripts to test different narrative arcs in a rapid-fire way. For animators, AI is keyframing, is character rigging, is texturing that doesn’t become a pain — and that ultimately makes getting your idea to the screen faster and cheaper.
And that’s not even counting the sick fucks in the degaussed Warholesphere who encode the stories that we do get to hear and see: Now, generative AI is being conscripted to warp what we actually hear and see. Now, you imagine a world where the musical score of a film changes to suit your mood as you watch it, or the environment of a video game is procedurally generated, specifically for you. Generative AI makes it possible to have such a level of flexibility and original content generated to match live feedback from the real-time response of hundreds of thousands of viewers, choked full of powerful gamifying experiences.
Copyright & Peer Review a problem?
Quick technological change is, naturally, not without problems. The most visceral arguments have been about copyright and intellectual property. What if an A.I. is trained on copyrighteted materials on a gargantuan scale? Whose creation is this — the A.I. creator’s, the prompt master’s, the artists responsible for the data that trained the model? These are difficult legal and moral questions — and regulators and legal scholars are just starting to get their heads around them.
Then there is the issue of authenticity. In a world where AI now exists which can immediately reproduce any master painter’s style or generate new melodies in style of Bach et al and all manner of other famous musicians, what value to do we attribute to this belief held by human beings regarding originality? Is art, if made by a machine, not having a soul? For a lot of people the value of art isn’t in the end result it would what it would mean, reminding you of what other people have felt, or created, or the effort they put behind it.” This conversation has prompted us to consider what we value in creative work, and what a role we want the human moment to play in art.
The Human Touch Maker to Conductor
Finally, the rise of generative AI isn’t a harbinger of doom for human creativity — it’s a harbinger of its transformation. Now it’s humans who become, well, something like conductors, and visionaries who have the opportunity to guide and shape the output of a tool that is still quite obviously a staggeringly powerful one. The future of a creative industry is not machines replacing human creators but the state where human intuition, empathy and ability to tell entirely new stories at scale is enhanced by speed and scale that AI provides.
Generative A.I. is the big new frontier, but it’s also preposterously expensive in the form of the canvas you’re building your mad vision from scratch. Where we as a society put this technology is actually the challenge and the opportunity, however. By seeing this as a partner, as opposed to a competitor, we can extend our creativity and creativity to the next chapter of human greatness to not only be led by our hands, but mixed with our minds, and, therein, a new and more intelligent partner.