With the rise and surge in use of A.I, there has been so many concerns especially in the aspect of whether A.I would be taking over certain jobs or rendering certain professions as "unimportant". One of those jobs that AI has proven to be great at and has performed extremely well in making people in the profession have a second thought are artists and designers.
I had known of AI art since late last year and had seen how cool it was but didn't feel threatened by it since it couldn't express emotions in art like humans did, and also because I felt since it was generated and wasn't created by an actual human, then it wouldn't be as appreciated. I was wrong. Reality hit when a group of art collectors in the NFT space were pouring crazy amounts of money in AI generated art and gave real artists little to no attention. It seemed crazy how people would rather pay crazy money for a computer generated art that took 10 secs to create and anyone with no talent could create, than one created by a highly skilled human that took hours, years of practice and talent.
I remember the long conversations @gloriaolar and I had as we contemplated on our future in the art space😅. This event coupled with others made some human artists switch their style to A.I generation.
Honestly, I felt threatened and bullied that period and wondered what I was doing wrong and if I should join the wave of AI artists because it seemed human artist weren't appreciated. But thankfully, it was just a wave and it was just a thing in the NFT space, not in real life. AI generated art weren't as appreciated as we thought, and human artists were infact much more appreciated globally. All we had to do was to take our eyes off the distractions and focus on our own markets and those who are interested in our kind of works.
So long all humans don't have the same desires, thoughts, emotions and wants, human artists will forever be relevant and appreciated.
Have you ever felt threatened by AI art?