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I’m a creative and I’m really glad that more people can express themselves

Just wanted to add representation to that feeling

Expressing themselves by generating boilerplate content?

Creativity is a conversation with yourself and God. Stripping away the struggle that comes with creativity defeats the entire purpose. Making it easier to make content is good for capital, but no one will ever get fulfillment out of prompting an AI and settling with the result.

Check out all the creatives on /r/screenwriting, half the time they are trying to figure out how to "make connections" just to get a story considered. It's a fucking nightmare out there. Whatever god is providing us with AI is the greatest gift I could imagine to a creative.

AI could be useful if used like any other tool, but not as an all in box where everything is done for you minus the prompt. Im actually worried people will become lazy

People will always become lazy with new tools. But not all people.

It'll lower the barrier of entry (and therefore the quality floor before people feel comfortable sharing something "they made" if they can deflect with an easy "the AI made this" versus "I put XY0 hours into this"), but it'll also empower people who wouldn't otherwise even try to create new things and, presumably, follow their passion to learn and do more.

Im sure not all people will become lazy but im worried about the trend in general.

Creativity is an expression. It comes from the heart. Hard work isn't always the greatest vehicle for creativity. We just think it is. I've seen plenty of things that clearly took a lot of execution but fundamentally lack creativity, often becoming an exhibition in technical virtuosity.

Here's something you can try to prove it to yourself. Sit down and write a novel. It'll be like squeezing blood out of a rock unless your heart is ready to do it freely. You'll see that if you force yourself through hard work to do it, you'll just end up with something that people will laud as creative due to the execution but it'll lack everything about free-flowing creativity. Good programmers are lazy, so are good creatives, but now I'm just repeating myself.

It's a lot easier squeezing blood out of a heart, especially for the lazy.

exactly, creatives and everyone else can always do something fulfilling for themselves just like before AI. They can struggle all they want and continue doing it for no capital. because that process is fulfilling to them.

Yes but how many will sign up for that? Im sure few will continue to do so but creativity will certainly take a big hit.

> Yes but how many will sign up for that? Im sure few will continue to do so but crea

It’s not important to me that they do.

> Im sure few will continue to do so but creativity will certainly take a big hit.

I’ve seen the workflows for AI generated films like https://youtu.be/x6aERZWaarM?si=J2VHYAHLL3og32Ix and I find it to be very creative. Its more interesting to me that this person would never have raised capital and tried to direct this, but this is much closer to what they wanted to create. I’m also entertained by it, whether I was judging it for generative AI issues or not.

They always could express themselves.

Not close to the way they wanted, and at too much sacrifice to the other things they were interested in or supported their family with

so they where never interested in the first place... but now they can call them self's artists after prompting a AI to make a image....

the level of discipline needed in a trade has gone down in almost every trade, including all mediums of art, for centuries

its not really anyone's problem, and generally limited to the people that made way too much of their identity to be based on a single field, that they feel they have to gatekeep it

its great that people can express themselves closer to their vision now

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