Are human beings going to turn into this incredibly lazy species--there will be no reason to innovate, no reason to create or need for genius, no need for novelty so we wind up evolving past the urge to create.
The way I look at this is a bit different.
If someone looks at something like AI and says, "all I need to do is type a prompt" and then they STOP RIGHT THERE, that's entirely on them.
It's baffled me this entire time, absolutely baffled me: The idea that the use of AI in a project/creation/whatever has to be step one of one. Why is it not step one of fifty? Why in the world would anyone JUST use a prompt? Isnt that freaking boring to make? Where's the challenge?
I've only made a couple of AI creations myself, and they didnt work like that. The best one, the biggest one, hangs on the wall on the house here, and was made as a father's day gift.
It involved not one, but THREE AIs, multiple other apps, 8 hours of work, and I just about went mad trying to do it. I also had to learn new Photoshop functions, among other things. And the thing that usually surprises people once they hear about how it was made is that it is also a photo. A real photo. Easy enough to prove, the thing it's a picture of is right across the street. I dont hide how the project was done, either, and if someone asks, I'll talk their ear off about it. After all that work, I think I earned it.
AI is not making people lazy. People STARTED OFF lazy. The ease of use of AI (at a low level, anyway) gives them an OUTLET for that laziness. That's why you get so many who see AI as a get rich quick scheme (spoiler: no). It's also why so many people walked into the NFT funhouse, easy marks that they are.
It's also why you get so many AI creations that have bizarre errors in them. Those are not necessary or inevitable. You wouldnt find anything like that in anything I make, as I dont allow that.
But people want to DO without the LEARN part. They want to DO without the EFFORT part. They want immediate Tiktok-speed results because holy pudding they NEED those freaking likes on Facefart or whatever.
Even with something like music. Give me an AI made song and I'll turn it into something more. I've got the tools and the knowledge. Dancing, pulsing fractal flames, like a beating heart along with the music. That's not hard, not for me anyway, because I took the time to learn to not just use the AI properly, but to learn many other tools, and have the creativity and effort to put it all together.
Granted, some parts of the process can be spectacularly irritating, but still. That's no excuse to just be like, hit the magic button, take the first result, call it done.
Just... uuuuuuuuuuugh. Sorry, I dont mean to ramble so much, but this is one of those subjects that absolutely grinds my gears. People blaming the AI for their own blasted faults. That seems to be a running theme with humanity, doesnt it?
Same goes for the people who dont actually use AI themselves, but assume absolute laziness and a lack of skill on the part of others who even briefly mention that they've ever interacted with Midjourney or something. "Pick up a pencil" my left foot.
If the lazy ones who just prompt with a single bloody sentence and then call themselves the next DaVinci didnt have AI, they'd be the same people that do things like make braindead reaction content on Youtube or Tiktok. DO without the EFFORT. The AI never created that in them.
There, I'm done ranting, I think I got that out of my system.
