So i decided to reread some old classics, something about reading that realigns the thought processes of ones own tiny little mind. The musty mist passage ways of long ago thought, as one imaginatively synaptically recreates worlds through an old school writers well placed words and letters. That process of eye aligned reading defragmentation led me all the way here.
To AI, artificial intelligence in the modern age of creative artistic expression. The line im typing into the AI machine, Chat GTP is please write me a Tolkeinest type story with shark nados and Mel Gibson as Frodo, a little William Walacy with avatar eyes. Oh and Musty misty passages in Mordor.
I am now tap finger waiting for chat GTP to write on my behalf the full story, my new creative tool is whir whir creatively writing while i stare glazed one eye into the brushing teeth plughole. Thinking deeply of other much much more important stuff.
Not that ive ever been anti AI, ive always just been anti phoney fake people more really. You know the type, the type that one feels you have to hide your hard thought creative work from, lest they grab it and fob it unashamedly as their own. Well as you get older you start to care less for these lifters of others work types. Lifes actually to short to sit on artistic ideas lest they be stolen by the creative artistic idea grabber types. So one must simply let ideas free, let them grow, let them become greater than the some of their working parts. Who cares if a candyflos "spook assem" thief steals your artistic creative thunder.
We not around long enough to make much of a dent in anything anyway some say. Is that the inevitability of eventual cynical thinking in this stew we all find ourselves marinating in? i hear cynics say.
Well we are all a collective thinking instrument anyway. In otherwords more powerfully united than as individuals. So the solitary creative artist dancing on the fringes is generally absorbed back into the thinking morass of the whole. Hive mind collective creative thought processes.
So AI other than being a tool for greater imagination, has now opened up a plethora of additional interesting conversation points And narratives. some might say challenges, which to my mind boils down to simple human nature really.
So you have an artistic creative who has for many, many years quietly honed an artistic skill. This now well practiced over a very long time expertise becomes them. Not only their signature but their every aligned personality trait. Then you have the aforementioned phoney characters with no such artistic raw creative skill, simply using AI to bash out within seconds what has been done behind the scenes by an artistic human driven brain for many years. And obviously there is now the brash nature of the now new profession AI technician. Who now seems to mockingly throw their incredible AI creation infront of the person who has the actual raw artistic creative skill. The AI specialist with much mirth and an incredible look of, "look what I, wonderful me, incredible mo-whA can do," An aire of its so much better than your hard slog 30 years of difficult artist skill toil in the stillness of your silly little creative mind, sucker! attitude!! These now brash AI technician types do that, ive seen it, experienced it, its extraordinary really. Ive been part of many raw creative, AI specialist discussions. The merits the demerits, those with actual artistic creative skill, those with AI sentence structure proficiency.
One such discussion had the AI technician telling a rather funny story, except i didnt find it funny at all. Because it was my story, my funny story i once wrote and here this candyflos stealer of my story was telling it as their own. Even down to the eye watering nose hair detail. I went to get another drink because what else was there to do really, was a funny story.
So thats my irk i have of the AI technician specialists, and its all to my simple little mind as such. Its a powerful tool that elevates Mediocre Operatives to composing opera pianists. M.O. who have never ever really sat infront of a real piano, or ever read music or who dont even have a pleasant voice for singing.
A little AI machine thats not even attached to the MO's fingers and another little AI machine not even attached to the not so pleasant voice and another AI machine not even attached to the thinking brain stem. Now seemlessly giving over creative building block data to the M.O. AI specialists. Much end product, composed solely by AI creative material. The AI machine is now playing and singing absolutely beautiful words, through an AI app. The AI person with all the machines not even attached to themselves, as the program is on their phone or computer can now outlay this beautiful music As if it has come from the very depths of themselves. The AI specialist operator is now smugly sitting next to the piano also completely unaware of whats going to happen next. We are all now Listening to incredible composed music no one has ever heard before coming straight out the darkness of the AI machine. The AI specialists operative, this is what gets me, then stares at the audience while everything is done for them like a Monet Mozart Murcury. All the while one can hear the whir whir of the AI machines as they hiss, spew and groink groink prop up this now super fantastic AI creative person, sitting doing nothing but be a mannequin cyborg in the middle of the room now taking in, no lapping up, all the creative attention for themselves, nogal.
Flip, creative attention and lime light old school artists have striven illusively for, for centuries. Lime light that every human artist could really use to generate more immediate human driven creativity. Imagine when Musks AI invention of advanced implanted intelligence is fused straight into the human brain stem. Perhaps we will have more puffed up lime lighter blow fish people expounding encyclopedias, only hopefully all on Mars by then. Thats an exciting prospect for a Sunday afternoon second breakfasts Interlude on the red planet. Meta data AI specialists competing with each other on whos AI platform is more intelligent. While the old school purist artist creatives serve them all drinks and garner tips. from these AI doyens of this new immediate lime light creative artist industry.
Certain now jaundiced eye people in the room might want to pull the plug on these whir whir AI machines doing all the real creative artistic work, just to see what happens when the machines stop churning and the AI technicians lime light gets turned off. I personally would never ever do that, because i hate awkward, embarrasing moments, i have an anxiety phobia when i see people implode in a setting. However much more cruel "others" who dont have my type of phobia would love to pull the plug im sure. In that meeting when raw creativity vs AI technicality suddenly is laid bare For the paying client to see who has what hard wired value when the electricity gets turned off.
So i have nothing at all against AI, its actually a fantastic tool, its really the human AI driv8ng technician i might look at disrespectful like.
I suppose in any human driven creative endeavor you have those artists who work tirelessly behind the scenes. And you have those that look to get all the accolades as a matter of principle. AI in some ways has magnified that lime light process for some. Those who want creative stroking accolades have an incredible vehicle to get the cocaine sensation of being the genius alot quicker. Perhaps the old school artists are going, but you never did that. What you presenting is generated by algorythmic collective computer process. Its not exactly your work that your presenting. Some would cry fake, phoney, some would just cry. But that would all be far to mean to make such a statement really. Especially to this new generation of creative artists AI specialists.
What most practiced old school creative artists have learned over many years, is to try and be humble, i say try because artist and humble can be on opposite ends of human emotion. when one has the my artwork creative output reveal. Its normally done with humble dignity, the praise heaped on an old school artist at exhibition time is done due to the obvious time and effort on display. Most artists smile and bow with dignity as they accept praise for the hard artistic creative work they have done.
However the AI "new money" technician mostly today hasnt learnt this important part of the artistic creative process Yet. Firstly its the disrespect towards others who have spent years acquiring an artistic skill the hard way. Then its the look how very easy it is and how quick it is to be a fantastic creative artist like you hard yard workers mindset. Followed by the i am actually rather a wonderful AI artist creative. All the while the 30 year not so wealthy but hugely talented over time real old school artistic genius sits there with an incredulous bemused look. Thinking i thought i left these types behind when i worked hard to perfect my artistic skills. Only to have the AI machines thats not even attached to the athletes arm AI javelin thrower, beat them at the olympics.
I was having a sunday lunch with a few folk the other day. And one of the participants to this relaxed afternoons proceedings At the Brassbell. Through a pizza, white wine mouthful said. Look at how very easy it is to compile a poem in AI. He then spoke into his phone, mentioning names of people we knew, their professions, what they liked, what they eat, how often they wear black. And within seconds, no whiring he read this incredible poem aligning with each input thought. That would have taken me 10 years im sure and i still would have left out the sardines in the curtains. Why did i feel so defeated? I felt why blimmen bother with my less than that incredible output AI endeavor. I felt it mocked my in the dark limited abilities.
So i got to thinking deeply, this is definetly me thinking, not the AI, i can tell its me because it lacks a certain polished refinement.
I reckon im going to use AI to write my comic book. I got hold of wildetect 2. Who is an absolute guru with AI speaking into the darkness stuff. In minutes he sent me back graphic stuff. I got very excited. I reckon i can turn my half baked mind and use the AI machine not attached to my brain stem. And churn out Barbara Cartland type comics with a small thread of my complete madness coupled with the algorythms of this new day.
Cant beat em, join them, i aint no purist. I want to sit in the room with no actual AI machines attached to me. Getting all that candyflos attention lime light. Im now going full AI continental cyborg.
Oh, AI just spat out my William Frodo story, "in the beginning there was a hole in the ground, in the hole lived you can take my life, but not my FREEDOM.!!!........" oh am i in for an AI reading treat.
Well just as soon as i can get out of bed, i will start my comic, all this super highway creative AI writing and reading stuff makes me SO very tired.
My Nado Storm character vs AI rendition below.
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