I'm an artist/designer/illustrator, and I've begun working almost exclusively by hand for the past 6 months. AI has damaged my relationship to my computer. I feel like an all-digital process is too close, too computer-y. I also feel like without some kind of CONTEXT (paper texture showing up in scans, background visible in photographs), people might mistake my work for AI. Obviously, an AI could emulate a scanned/photographed watercolor painting, but I don't feel like the glossiness of AI can mimic with my in-person drawing style... yet.
I feel the same! I used to almost exclusively make things on my computer and iPad, but I’m also no longer satisfied by that. Part of it is wanting to avoid feeding companies more of my data that they’ll use toward AI training (I’ve been on a bit of a journey with deciding which programs and applications to use), part of it is a desire to get away from it all and by making art an offline hobby, and part of it — now that I’ve started — is that I think my skills are improving by doing more by hand 🤷🏻♀️
I'm actually really fascinated with the whole AI thing. Being old, I have already seen what happened when we went from manual typewriters, for example, and dial phones attached to the wall, and vinyl records. The big move was how easy it got to access information from anywhere in the world, only to discover how easy it appears to manipulate that information. I have no doubt AI is going to open doors we don't even know exist, and an awful lot of us are going to run right through them without thinking. I still maintain something I heard what is now a very long time ago...just because we can doesn't mean we should.
Thanks for sharing your perspective! I’m fascinated by the topic of AI too — the quasi-religious hype around it, the sci-fi predictions, how it collects and uses data, how it stands to impact human thought and communication. Just based on living through the rise of social media I’m skeptical that on balance we’ll use AI in intelligent ways — which is frustrating, bc it doesn’t HAVE to be this way. Your open door analogy is perfect. “Just because we can doesn’t mean we should” is the mantra we need right now.
I'm an artist/designer/illustrator, and I've begun working almost exclusively by hand for the past 6 months. AI has damaged my relationship to my computer. I feel like an all-digital process is too close, too computer-y. I also feel like without some kind of CONTEXT (paper texture showing up in scans, background visible in photographs), people might mistake my work for AI. Obviously, an AI could emulate a scanned/photographed watercolor painting, but I don't feel like the glossiness of AI can mimic with my in-person drawing style... yet.
I feel the same! I used to almost exclusively make things on my computer and iPad, but I’m also no longer satisfied by that. Part of it is wanting to avoid feeding companies more of my data that they’ll use toward AI training (I’ve been on a bit of a journey with deciding which programs and applications to use), part of it is a desire to get away from it all and by making art an offline hobby, and part of it — now that I’ve started — is that I think my skills are improving by doing more by hand 🤷🏻♀️
I'm actually really fascinated with the whole AI thing. Being old, I have already seen what happened when we went from manual typewriters, for example, and dial phones attached to the wall, and vinyl records. The big move was how easy it got to access information from anywhere in the world, only to discover how easy it appears to manipulate that information. I have no doubt AI is going to open doors we don't even know exist, and an awful lot of us are going to run right through them without thinking. I still maintain something I heard what is now a very long time ago...just because we can doesn't mean we should.
Thanks for sharing your perspective! I’m fascinated by the topic of AI too — the quasi-religious hype around it, the sci-fi predictions, how it collects and uses data, how it stands to impact human thought and communication. Just based on living through the rise of social media I’m skeptical that on balance we’ll use AI in intelligent ways — which is frustrating, bc it doesn’t HAVE to be this way. Your open door analogy is perfect. “Just because we can doesn’t mean we should” is the mantra we need right now.