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As someone with SzPD, I feel this. I build worlds and create characters and tell stories in my head all the time, and I can't turn that part of me off, but the actual act of writing them down and sharing them with others is so intimidating.
But at the beginning of the year I've committed myself to writing some of them down as a novel (really, a series of novels), and it's so hard to actually write, but I'm forcing myself to at least outline the plot and write down character notes and worldbuilding, and I _need_ to do this.
Genuine question, does that mean if you could automate the process of making art, you would? Because I always thought the main reason AI doesn't appeal to me is cause I actually like the process but maybe for other people it's different?
Another possible reason aside from energy concerns is that genAI lacks the intentionality of human art. You could say it lacks "heart." Every single decision made by a person in the creative process has some intention behind it, even if subconscious. Machines just regurgitate randomly w/o intention.
Yeah, I definitely agree with you. But I wonder if people who hate the art process would prefer if there was some magical way that art would just appear exactly how they intended it to. I feel like I wouldn't cause a large part of the creative process happens while I'm actually doing the thing.
The question isn’t if we could automate the process. It’s more “if I can’t show everyone all the blood, sweat and tears that goes into making my art/book/film, then I’d rather do nothing at all.”
To suffer is to be human. AI can never be, no matter how many things they steal or pull from.
Thinking about it more, Defunctland and OP’s line of thinking is only ONE way to view the process of creation. Everyone’s different, but it’s PRECISELY that difference is what keeps all forms of art interesting, innovative, and… Real. That’s something a machine can never create.
I think for a lot of artists, it's not really that suffering is needed, it's more about feeling seen in what drove you to make your art. Whether that came from suffering or elation, hope or guilt, we want what we put into it to be known. Connection with the humanness within our art, I guess.
The frustration in the act of creation scales with the intensity of the creator’s care about the subject matter. AI by definition cannot create something it cares about.
And art that nobody cares about is inherently “just” noise.
I don't think it's about the process. The main issue with AI is that the dataset is plagiarized.
I ended up building a few non-AI tools to sync up cameras and speed up productions, and even then it's still a nightmare to properly put my vision on screen.
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You gotta have some more respect for your craft and talent, Piss_Shitter.
It’s the rest of life that weighs down on that act that makes it stressful and frustrating.
If I didn’t need to slave away to survive I would be constantly working on multiple projects
To suffer is to be human. AI can never be, no matter how many things they steal or pull from.
And art that nobody cares about is inherently “just” noise.
A sketch is fun, but rarely are sketches more personally invested than an effortful illustration, you know?
I ended up building a few non-AI tools to sync up cameras and speed up productions, and even then it's still a nightmare to properly put my vision on screen.
My game keeps taking longer and longer to make and I can't stand the thought of me not creating.