Can we please stop with the CREATIVITY IS LOST FOREVER?

I'm seeing an explosion of this takes everywhere, even from people who otherwise love tech.<br><br>I should add I'm a creative myself (filmmaker), so I do have some personal stakes in this, but I definitely don't have nostalgia for traditional filmmaking. Don't even get me started.<br><br>In all my years in this field, I have never seen people more excited to create than they are now. AI-assisted tools became a new toy, a new means to express themselves. A lot of my friends are first-timers, artists from other fields, and they're finally able to make movies they've always dreamed of when otherwise they couldn't afford to hire a whole crew or didn't have the expertise in filmmaking.<br><br>This all couldn't be further from the truth.<br><br>We have an explosion of cheap, creative, and high-quality content... and more creators than ever coming online.<br><br>I'm not saying that AI didn't bring some disruption, but if anything it only made it simpler, faster, and cheaper... which in turn allows more creators to exist.<br><br>The only "lost" ones are the middle class of VFX artists and voice actors. The ones who made a living solely off doing this and nothing else. But a lot of them are still adapting to a new world, and they even admit it - they can't compete with free AI models.<br><br>So, what does it mean for artists? The only thing it means is that uniqueness, style, and imagination are going to shine more and more, all the while the rest of the "middlemen" can still adapt and thrive in a new world, but will have to put in the effort to learn the new means of creative expression.<br><br>But if you want to tell me that this couldn't have been predicted, then I don't know what to tell you. The field was ripe for disruption. High costs, high barriers to entry, and tons of money being thrown around.<br><br>This was always coming.<br><br>People need to stop romanticizing human art so much and maybe realize that even human artists mostly stand on the shoulders of the previous giants.<br><br>I think a lot of this takes are fueled by "But human artists are irreplaceable even if machines can do art", which is a very silly and incorrect idea, if you ask me. Yes, there is no replace for human ingenuity and creativity... but so what? when you can even collaborate with AI models, which we even saw this year on AI-driven art.<br><br>The truth is that if we're being honest with ourselves, we want to hear human voices. We want to hear our own emotions when we are creating. We want to relate to them and feel more connected to the art. But a lot of these takes seem to forget that machines can also create art that evokes the same emotions. Because, guess what... machines have already learned the rules of how to be human.<br><br>I think we should stop fueling the fire of this "human vs AI" art debate. It's a silly debate that doesn't even make sense. AI can create beauty, yes... but they're not humans. But human art even came after machines! CARS, computers, etc. <br><br>One of the biggest art movements ever was Impressionism. But that didn't occur in a vacuum. It occurred because of the invention of the light bulb, the camera, and other machinery that came out at the time and affected society. It didn't come from humans... it came from humans + machines. Which is the relationship we're going to have forever.<br><br>But I think people are forgetting that when we're making a statement like this - "Machines can't replace art even if they can make art" - we're using a very big assumption. We should... and we already have... learned to love our machines. They are an extension of us. They are us. And it's silly to think we can't learn from them and collaborate with them. And it's not like we're losing our jobs because of it. Who loses their jobs? The middlemen. The ones who don't have imagination, talent, or creativity. But they should learn to adapt.<br><br>I think the human art debate is a silly debate and we should take a different approach. The human art debate is a vague debate that shouldn't even be discussed. It's like asking "Do you want to live in a world with or without cars?" Well, cars are here forever. They're not going away. They're an extension of us. They're us.<br><br>We should be embracing our machines and learning to live with them. There was always a human + machine relationship, when even the definition of human itself... which is basically a machine. What is a machine? Is a human body not a machine? Of course, it is. But a very complex one, capable of reproducing and even more so, capable of building other machines.<br><br>...Or maybe we should just celebrate our art in all its forms instead of having this silly debate? With all these new tools coming out, I think the next decade is going to be the most exciting decade ever for human art. Even art created by collaboration with machines, which... guess what... is art.<br><br>But I'm not sure what the debate is even about, at this point.