im so sick of "content" replacing any actually descriptive word, it's flattening and erasing significance of different crafts into just products. i feel the same when people say stuff like "it's just a movie/book/painting/whatever" as if any work of art is solely there for entertainment.
same with the word "consume" replacing "engage with"! "consuming content" not even in the way we consume food but as if you're a wood chipper consuming lumber
For those unsure what to call yourselves instead, just shorten it to "creator". It's still ubiquitous enough while dropping the word that inherently devalues the work you produce.
it's an annoyingly.. erasing term, boils all art and expression down to a single hegemony of consumption, i hate that I catch myself using it sometimes cause g-d damn it's taken over every avenue of personal self expression and you gotta fight it off with a stick sometimes..
Always think of creators of contentment, or creators who are content in their lives, reading it rather than hearing it. And honestly I wish we had more of either of those and less of the ones who simply have an urge to shovel out whatever crap they can think of to feed the algorithm.
What makes the term soulless is how it includes both people making good stuff and the opposite.
Putting like a talented animator in the same room as Logan Paul is like putting Stanley Kubrick next to the Kardashians.
I wish there was an alternative, adequate name for the...craft? But to me, "content creator" has always sounded like such an all-inclusive yet absurdly pretentious title that I can't help but groan a little everytime I come across it. Sorry, but not sorry.
Ford Maddox Ford, at the printers w Joyce
Printer says: can you scribble some lines, the folding will leave 4 blank pages in the book
Ford explodes: this is the greatest living poet, you cant
Joyce: we can't let 4 pages go blank and he scribbles some doggerel
Friends, if you are interpreting this as an attack and we do not know each other, that's on you. If you are interpreting this as an attack and we do know each other, you are correct. I am burrowing under your castle walls at this very moment. You are under siege. Alert your guard.
All I hear is "I'm the butter cream in the piping bag. I am the spackle and I will never know how many cracks I've filled. I make things but in the end I am expanding urethane foam and someone else's hand holds the nozzle"
People calling themselves "content creators" always sounded to me like the sort that knowingly and willingly create soulless, cheap material whose only reason to exist is to feed the never-ending pit of internet media, for the sole hope of generating revenues.
But that is exactly what a lot of people do! You don't even need AI for this. Reaction videos are mostly that, only to be topped by reaction videos that "react" to reaction videos.
AI is not intelligence, it is still just pattern recognition. Pattern recognition can be useful, not necessarily to tell your grocer when to deliver vegetables, but to tell your washing machine when to start, i.e. power prices are low. Art can be based on patterns, we usually abhor ...
... the most radical strange & new, the avantgarde (see e.g. the critiques expressionism, surrealism at their times). We need something familiar to connect with, but also a variation bringing in something new, exciting. That's all the pop songs, see https://youtu.be/oOlDewpCfZQ. AI cannot do the new.
The vast majority of what we're trying to shove "ai" in (which is as you said, not intelligence, idk what point you were trying to make), could be done with traditional programming. And I won't judge whether you enjoy ai art or not, but to me it completely defeats its own purpose.
Well, you brought in AI, I wasn't talking about AI, just about content. And if you don't know where someone is going, perhaps wait for them to finish their argument, esp. when the ellipsis (="...") indicates there's more to come, and think a bit ab't it instead of spamming a reply in under 1 minute.
It is possible to both content & art. We don't live in a society which apricates art enough to consider it worthy of life. However commodified art, content, is worthy of money which in tern allows for life.
Shit has been this way since the dawn of civilization...
I think 2 things about the term "content creator". 1) it kinda serves as an umbrella term for many different types of niche creations and 2)in a world full of social media and online content, there's a market for people to make videos, etc about whatever interest/hobby they have and make money (1/2)
(2/2) And sure, it's not art, and some of it is kinda vapid, but there's a lot of people that put a lot of work and passion into, say, longform videos about their favorite video game, or fashion, or history blogs. It's an understandable shorthand for varied and difficult to label media.
Just the other day in the Los Angeles sub, someone made a whole post asking if anyone else is interested in partnering up to make content. The fuck does that mean
Sometimes there's just no better description if you don't wanna call yourself an "influencer" or "[Insert video site here]er" because that shit's cringe. Wouldn't call them artists either...usually.
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*adjusts imaginary tie*
We are not the same.
Putting like a talented animator in the same room as Logan Paul is like putting Stanley Kubrick next to the Kardashians.
https://youtu.be/hAtbFwzZp6Y?si=lP582GYcWQU1Cosl
It's better than influencer.
Printer says: can you scribble some lines, the folding will leave 4 blank pages in the book
Ford explodes: this is the greatest living poet, you cant
Joyce: we can't let 4 pages go blank and he scribbles some doggerel
of course Ford was a notorious liar
"I am James Joyce."
https://bsky.app/profile/cpsc.gov/post/3lk26mhefds2y
https://bsky.app/profile/cpsc.gov/post/3lk26mhefds2y
Ai artists are "content creators".
End of debate.
Shit has been this way since the dawn of civilization...
Mmmm... tacos...
https://bsky.app/profile/jotamide.bsky.social/post/3liklfkxork2e
There's always less in there than the size of the box might leave you to believe