The advent of AI art has given me a new appreciation for amateurish work. Only humans can make something that sort of sucks but in an interesting or at least coherent way. AI can't do "so bad it's good".
It is honestly so fun to see the drawings your bestie has been working on and encourage them. And not just in a "you'll totally get better" way. I mean also very very much in a "this is already brilliant because I can see what's going on in your head, the person I love" kind of way.
It should be fine for people to be just sort of ok at art and to not have to make it into a career or "side hustle". If the thumbs are always on the wrong side, who cares? You want to make something hyper-detailed and accurate? Great!
90% of everything is crap and it’s still 10000% better and more historically and culturally important than any book generated by AI. I’d rather read absolute dreck written by a human because at least one person cared enough about a bad idea to commit to it.
'Amateur' means 'lover'. That's the key difference.
If you do something for profit, no amount of editing will give it a soul. If you do it for the love of the medium, those who also love it will be able to pick up your enthusiasm, and love THAT.
"90% of everything is crud"
"So... if 1000 works are published each year... we really should only publish 100"
"No, then 90 of them will be crud"
"Then we only need to publish 10"
"I think you're not getting this, let's start over"
It’s also the case that a lot of garbage (or even salvageable media) is garbage depending on taste. Like, my tenth of good works likely has a lot of overlap with someone else’s tenth, but it’s not necessarily identical.
The latter is something I'm having trouble to accept. Ours ("western") is an artless culture, essentially, bcs of capitalism and the automation of human activity and labour and such. Even if the small things I create for myself are culturally relevant, they are relatively so.
Your crappy amateur art is more artistically relevant then mass produced low effort stuff that was only designed to make a buck. There's more of a chance of something original and thoughtful coming out of a complete amateur than Amazon reviving Buffy for the 36th time to cash in on nostalgia.
Are you sure about that bcs last time wr checked nobody knows how to make clothing or farm or cook bcs ee enslaved others. In that regard we are artless and do not deserve
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If you do something for profit, no amount of editing will give it a soul. If you do it for the love of the medium, those who also love it will be able to pick up your enthusiasm, and love THAT.
"So... if 1000 works are published each year... we really should only publish 100"
"No, then 90 of them will be crud"
"Then we only need to publish 10"
"I think you're not getting this, let's start over"