AI is creating a 'human premium' for art made by people
AI is creating a 'human premium' for art created by people
Deezer says 44% of uploaded tracks are AI-generated, and 97% of listeners can't tell the difference — yet more than half still say they care whether a human made it. Economist Daniel Susskind traces that instinct from the Sistine Chapel to Kasparov's 1997 loss to Deep Blue, while New Yorker critic Kyle Chayka argues AI's 'generic, obsequious and banal' output is pushing artists toward the messier and weirder. The harder question: as algorithms already curate what we consume, will we notice when they make it too?
If you commodify one kind of thing, the things you can't commodify start to seem more important.
- tarkin2
Art was never separate from the person and the culture that created it. It was its soul. Now our lives are flooded with soulless creations night and day--the product of lazy minds and an amalgamation of stolen already-bland cultural works.
- yu3zhou4
I discuss it a lot with my wife who happens to be a painter.
For years we have perceived my work (swe) as a safe harbor. With AI boom, tides have changed and now I perceive her work as a much, much more future-proof activity
- khalic
I must admit the prevalence of AI generated images has challenged me to be more attentive to detail, I even started looking for small artists I can commission for stuff on my walls, been going to expos a little more... I'm happy if this gives artists a small lifeline away from the more mercantile aspects that AI is conquering.
- olalonde
That's been the case for over a century. People pay a large premium for the original even when identical copies are available.
- slfnflctd
A lot of us saw this one coming a while ago. Many, many artists of all kinds have already put up "AI-free" (or similar) badges on their work. I think it will be more significant in the fine arts world, however local art fairs could be affected as well.
I say the more the merrier, but artists who use AI in their workflows are going to be pressed about it - with negative connotations - for a while. Transparency is the best solution in my opinion.