a "Theo" is basically Universal Basic Income 😛

Art 10 years ago made me discover that there's more than just "eat, factory and sleep" and made me decide it was worth enough to not think about taking my life any longer. Now it's being attacked left and right from people who only see the profits out of it, deeming it "useless" the moment they see no money out of it and calling anybody practising it "non workers". It not about the damn money here. The value stands in keeping people mentally healthy. Automatising it completely kills the point of that and renders into just another product entirely focused on profits.

That was a great video. Very though-provoking. I think you're absolutely right. We already know that a lot of kids learn better if they have fun and I think both gamifying / sportifying as well as artifying school subjects could lead to highly more engaged students. We all had that one teacher who just had his own special way of teaching a very dry subject matter and just make it more interesting solely by the approach he used to teach it. Unfortunatelly the school system is slow to adapt and I think that needs to change.

mhm

It totally makes sense.

Ai is awesome 😊

What art needs is a serious copy right like musicians have on their songs if ya are making a living out of it. What Ai can do is verify art if it's original or a copy and if the people that made it say is theirs or a study, is not that difficult to just post a short showing your worked file or painting.

think the reason why ai will not replace human art is not because it couldn't but because humans ENJOY making art! there will be some type of movement in order to keep promoting human creativity. It'd be very dumb to let a robot do what you like to do. Ai is for what you DO NOT like to do. Like if AI could reproduce for us are we going to give up sex?

You really dont understand what you're talking about. The issue is over copyright, consent, and the art dump. Ai is drowning out actually artist while not crediting them for learning off of them or get compensation. At least when an artist puts out a art learn book to other people they are getting payed for their knowledge ai is stealing it.

This idiot just "humanized" AI. Stranger than fiction.

I don’t paint. But now I feel like I want to. I recently found a box of Crayola’s “Coulours of the World” on sale in the half-off bargain bin at my local grocery store. Something about a box full of nothing but possibe skin tones intrigued me…so I bought a full box of the other 64 colors to go with it, and I found a skein of expensive watercolour paper in the donation bin at the food pantry I work at, so I’m thinking of getting a nice black ink pen and seeing what happens. I’m a musician mostly, but we’ll see.

What a relief to hear a fellow artist talk about A.I. without sounding like a whiny idiot.

The more lonely you are in life, the more you start to see Edward Hopper's works as normal living.

This video has such good compositon my god

totally agree - confusion over 'what is real' only comes from being 'extremely online' or from naivety about how 'real' most media has been anyway. Touching grass is a simple rmeedy. That said we also live in economically challenging times - and - placing myself around the level2.5 out of 7 of AI riskiness I am claiming a piece of the AI pie. Yes I have been putting thought towards how to monetize it. But i'm not averse to the ethical and philosophical questions. I'm essentially trying to use AI as a tool to remix and re-imagine public domain content in certain ways that simply would not have been possible before.

Bullshit! From caves and cavemen, Art is part of human nature and without AI, Art will live forever as far away as humans exist in the universe or anywhere else.

AI is able to generate digital mess. There is no esthetics to it. One major problem is that AI don't have any notion of design. So, after a year at trying to create something satisfying, I decide to quit.

When I heard "Art is dead" I laughed, because human's have innately made art for time immemorial. We believe art means it must be valued by others. It has lost it's purpose, you are right. The irony is that if you are making art for money, you aren't making art you are making a product. Your creation is preceded by what you assume other people want and it's so impersonal that it's not "real art" any longer. That is not completely purposeless, but people think they want to make art as their job because they enjoy making art. They are mad that AI is taking that opportunity away from them, and the reality is that people that make art for money tend to eventually dread their job as much as they would any other job. There are real ethical implications with AI, and that's a conversation to be had, but it's not the entire conversation. What we resist persists, and AI has been unleashed. Art is never going to die, and I think people need to ask themselves why they make art at all. For self-expression or for validation? I realize what I am saying is angering, but personally when I learned that I don't need my future to play out in a specific way to find happiness and meaning in my life I felt free. If you believe being an artists that sustains themselves on their art is the only route to happiness, you will never be happy.

AI creative appropriators don't understand art...and they never will until they learn to actually create things. They see a final product, not the process - it's the PROCESS that makes art art.

Any painting you have ever seen cmyk printed or on an rgb screen is not what what it is. When you see it you see it. Art is and will always be an original. Completely depends on the ambient light in the room and the age of your eyes. Originals are still the only way to see the human experience. 🤘

Put a computer with A.I. software that cannot sample artist through history, it cannot create anything. Looking at A,I. images, I cannot tell who created that image, unlike through the centuries you can basically tell who made it, there's a signature look to it. A.I. makes sanitized garbage. Nothing more to say about it. Now I need to see if those paint brushes on your desk or just for show, or do you really use them. I will check out your other videos, I assume you do use them.

seeing sora this aged like milk out on a hot day

You ARE smoking drugs.

It isn't just the death of trust. Going forward the operative assumption will be that a given image is generated as a market product, rather than knowing that a creative spirit was trying to communicate something ineffable. This forced change in the operative assumption of the viewer degrades an artist's ability to reach others by deleting their openness. Sam, how would your relationship with your favorite painting (I can't find that vid now) be different if you knew from the beginning it had been a purpose-generated image rather than the record of an authentic reach toward communicating a mystery?

AI isn't a tool for artists, it's a replacement for artists. You're deluding yourself.

Art was not needing AI at all. We live in the most prolific era of all arts EVER. No one has time to enjoy every single canvas, mural, comic book, movie, series, book, musical release of a single year. We were not needing more speed nor more ease. There was nothing preventing anyone to make art of any genre in developed countries. Sorry i have no time nor intention to watch the video. I'm a human and it takes me real time to contemplate and process information and got better things to do. And if I'm probably seeing the tired arguments that "no one makes good music anymore" or "modern art sucks", sorry but everyone sheltering those ideas should look beyond their noses.

This was the denial stage of grieving.

2 yrs ago, I went on a mission to turn most of my yard into a garden. I still have jars of pickled cucumbers I grew. We ate cantaloupe, honeydew and watermelons; the birds got sunflower seeds and planted the next yrs crop. Last yr, my cherry tree was covered in fruit. ...I get it... Regarding ai, I like this pottery quote I heard decades ago: My thumbprint, on this 1000-year-old pot, matches hers. ❤

music might be boned lol

As someone struggling through what feels like a pointless dissertation right now, this for some reason makes me feel better. Thanks for sharing.

Really beautiful - one of my favorites of yours

AI is just regurgitated imagery. Thus, it will inevitably display semblances of what has already been viewed as beautiful, creative, innovative or insightful, even expressive. The important thing to remember tho is that this is not anything made from a real world experience; it is a lie, a story stolen and reassigned for commercial, capitalist purposes. Real world creative expression is personal and the visceral act of making the object becomes a part of that story and the art. AI is the ultimate art thief.

Paradoxically AI art will make original (hand made art) more valuable.

Just found this video today. Yet, purchased a print of yours a few months ago because it talked to me about the importance of hugs. Being French-Canadian I am a hugger and always appreciated the different meanings of the different hugs.

I needed this. Thank you, Sam!

i noticed with the dawn of Ai, professional artists are being more helpful to start up artists and have been giving more and more helpful art advice, ive seen an explosion of free tutorials and anatomy help which has been really lovely- the community is changing, it was compassionate before but its being way more compassionate now.

It is not intellect that takes humanity forward,it is wisdom. Hidden truths in the stories of old,the alchemists, mystics and sages knew that all answers are within,not without. We have to quell the ego and let the true Self speak.

i have completely disregarded the pressures of output for alot of reasons. Im not staking anything in the ground... so to speak. Im in a complete state of creative middle realm. No end and no beginning. Its trippy.

its not 0% of the value. A good thing that's done and finished well is a great feeling

Great video! Thanks for reminding me today of what's important!

This was great superb job , most things are lies in this world . People live in the fake mental constructs of rich men’s wet dreams and they have no clue to what extent.