Friday, November 29, 2024
Will The AI Boom Hurt Creativity? Not If Humans Lead The Way
www.forbes.com: As we experience the ups and downs in the use of AI in business, an important underlying question is the extent to which AI hurts or help creativity. I wrote in 2022 on how we need to be careful not to over use AI in a way that makes us human borgs. Now the question is more relevant than ever, as the availability and use of generative AI has exploded since the launch of ChatGPT last year.
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This reminds me of when I was younger and I had so many ideas for stories and shows and adaptations and animations, but I didn't have the skills or know-how to get my ideas out there. In the past, you had to have BOTH a good idea AND the skills to create a medium to represent it. Now, you can get your good idea out there without the skills, using just AI. Of course, it will not be as good as if you made it yourself, but AI is only going to get better and better. Maybe it is already there, people just don't know how to use the algorithms to their advantage. But anyways, my point is that AI levels the playing field to a certain extent. It means people that haven't been able to learn, or haven't had time to learn programs like Blender, Photoshop, Adobe, etc, can still get their ideas out there. It makes life easier for people with ideas, but harder for artists. I believe this will not put artists out of a job at all though. Sort of like sewing machines. When sewing machines were invented, seamstresses and sewing-people burned the factories and broke all the machines because they thought they would lose jobs. Some did, but you still need someone to RUN the machines, they don't just work on their own, which I think is the same with AI to a certain extent. You still need people to use the AI like a tool.
What this article articulates well is that until AI advances further to achieve more understanding and therefore do a better job at completing tasks, it has to be understood as a tool rather than something to do work for you. What I mean by this is that when using AI, you always have to consider if you’re using AI properly or in a way that it ought to be used, especially when there are so many forms of AI trained to do specific things and are trained on specific datasets. As such, there is always a possibility that AI completes a task, but it isn’t actually doing the correct work and thus you aren’t using the tool properly. Also, hearing about supplemental use of AI makes me wonder if in the near future there will be a heavier reliance on in-person explanation and presentation of work to verify understanding from employees and ensure that they truly understand how to do their work.
I think the article stating near the end that AI has a while before it takes over creative work makes it stand out from other articles here about AI that have the doomsday mindset. Some articles here have the snowball effect (which I do agree with) but I’m just pointing out the positive mindset of this article that people won’t be replaced with AI to do creative jobs like playwriting and design because AI cannot harness the full potential of creating an experience designed start to finish with the polish and relevance a human can create. I agree with the former sentiment, but I think AI will replace humans with creative jobs in the near future because AI is cheaper than humans and faster; while the content produced by AI will probably not be as good as that made of a talented human, I think it will be used more and more because capitalism will always choose the cheaper route.
AI in the creative industry is a huge concern. As helpful as it is, it not only poses a threat to the jobs of human artists, but it also takes away from “art”. AI art is a different genre of art. Part of what makes art is how human it is. The emotion and intention that is behind every word or brushstroke. AI can certainly mimic it, and get extremely close to it, but it will never replicate it in the same way.
Unfortunately, industry is always about quantity or quality. If AI is cheaper, faster, and more efficient, then that is what will be used.
That being said, we shouldn’t be scared of AI– we should figure out how to use it ethically. It can be used in a way that doesn’t have negative consequences and can contribute to an art piece. We should use it alongside humans, not instead of.
This same approach can be applied to all types of developing technologies. For instance phones in school. We should be figuring out how to use technology and phones in a learning environment, not having kids put them in “phone jail” at the beginning of class.
AI is a pretty revolutionary concept that has only really been as prevalent as it has been within the 21st century (and really within the 2020s), its technology is very impressive but that comes with its own drawbacks for people. I think it isn’t really ai itself that is dangerous but how people use ai in ways that hurt creatives. AI can be used as a tool to assist artists and doesn’t need to be used as a means to replace but because how quickly and cheaply AI works a lot more people are using it instead of hiring actual artists this is worrying especially since it’s happening in industries as well. Most companies care about quantity over quality if ai saves them more money then they will for sure use it instead of hiring people who need work(we know this because it’s already been happening lots of people outside of the arts as well have been loosing their jobs to ai since ai had the capability to do their jobs)
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