Photography is a good comparison but I would rather think of the printing invention. Until that every book was hand copied by monks during weeks if not months, and each were piece of art, rare, beautiful... If we compare these with today books, well... our standard soft cover book doesn't fare well :'D BUT this invention allowed the birth of literature, journalism, history, even computing to an extend... Sure the industrialization of creating a book made the books themselves less interesting (in comparison), but what they carry inside on the other hand had become the main subject. Your point with "what" is creativity is actually what we must focus on. The point of art is to carry a message, the technique around is a way to convey it, the more the technique works the better (bad technique steal the viewer attention away from the message). I think that social media pushed a bit too much the "technical perfection" trend, most artist display very beautiful piece but I must ask : how many of these piece has make an impression on us ? I can binge watch instagram or pinterest without remembering anything... Maybe internet isn't really the place for art actually, maybe art is going to go back to physical piece and that is for the best. AI won't create by itself, but it can help. Currently we think of generative tool that exist, rather we must think about the technology behind. It's an enhanced robot that can learn, which mean it can become a personal assistant for everyone, tailored to every specifics needs. It won't do the heavy lifting if you don't want it to do it. See Proko test with AI to shorten the video production : it's a very good example, AI remove the annoying part of the process that actually don't have creativity value, helping gain time and concentrate on real creation. I'm very thrilled with what it will offer, and I can see it like that : ditch washing machine, vacuum cleaner, dishwasher and think about how your house is all hand-tended with care and it's so much better. Sure there are benefit of doing thing by hands, but we have only so much life time and we need to choose were the effort is put. AI will be our art tools to focus on the right parts, I am sure of it :)

Dear Mr Liandro, I think you made an excellent point and your final point on creativity is highly excellent. But I can't help but be cynical at this fact. What I'm about to say is probably bad and maybe even distateful, so I am very sorry about it. To me, I don't think people will embrace their creativity. I feel with the rise of A.I we will have a very specific type of art/writting in these ages, and that is art/writting about sexual abuse/violence. Not because A.I could not make such stories/art, but just because such topic is banned in A.I.  (Excerpt from an article talking about midjourney "Midjourney strives to make its content PG-13, and hence, it has implemented a filter that automatically forbids and bans exact words or similar words related to violence, drugs, harassment, adult content, gore, aggressiveness, and abusiveness."   https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.greataiprompts.com/imageprompt/list-of-banned-words-in-midjourney/%23:~:text%3DMidjourney%2520strives%2520to%2520make%2520its,gore%252C%2520aggressiveness%252C%2520and%2520abusiveness.&ved=2ahUKEwiqpNjMj4yAAxX28zgGHccvDvsQFnoECA0QBQ&usg=AOvVaw0TEJxPVrHpHTXkNwKdhUcM An article on wikihow on things that is illegal in Chatgpt- I have not confirm if this is true but I have a hard time believing that it isn't considering chatgpt had become so comericalble "Disallowed usage includes: illegal activity, violent content, adult content, fraudulent activity, and more" https://www.wikihow.com/Can-You-Get-Banned-from-Chat-Gpt) I speculate with these filters (and if the two website I had mentioned will still be used by company in the future and reach a point where the product of these and of humanity will be no different) that the most popular art/writting (atleast of the human kind) will be focusing on more taboo subject. (Though A.I. have already produce countless gory subject matter, so perhaps in the future the prominence subject of art will be that of dealing with sexual abuse/rape?) I would likke to mention the artist Hiroaki Samura as an example (I have attached an example below on image 1), an artist who create art that touch on sexual abuse. If one were to type in "Hiroki Samura A.I. art", he is one of the artist that the A.I. cannot replicate the feeling of (Example of A.I replicating Hiroaki Samura's art on image 2). Most of the other artist, who drew/paint dark subject, I.E. Andrew Wyeth, Zdizlaw bekskinki, Kathe Koltzwitz. Though the A.I. could not copy their draftsmanship, it can copy their feeling. Hiroki Samura is one of the few where I couldn't feel it. Unlike the other three, That feeling of hopelessness wasn't present in the A.I. (Of course, one could also suspect the other weaknes of A.I. art, which is it cannot create Black and white ink drawing, Only painting. But hopefully these point still stand- I should also mention that inking could also be a sign of authentication in what an A.I. generated world, where one can tell which is art is created by humans if one of post an artwork made entirely by ink/Black and white, though of course this is thinking that the A.I. would not just get better) Conclusive thought Perhaps these restriction will encourage artist to create more dark masterpiece. Art that is in line with Silent hill 2 , the house in fata morgana, Clarissa, paranoia agent and berserk. Works that showcase the horror of the world in it's entirety without fear of what people think. (Though I do find it interesting that if my prediction is correct, the only art that human can truly produce that is original, are art that's we seem to want to look away from) In the early 21st century, with the rise of mental health issue and psychology, we found ourselves with more introspective story. About characters fighting mental illness and trauma. Just like that, I speculate that in the early middle of the 21st century, we will continue this topic, only it will become more apparent with the rise of A.I. Apologies for such dark topic. Would like to know if you have any thoughts on this.

Thank you for sharing your insights on this matter, @Steve Lenze! I’ve come to admire your work a lot over this time I’ve been following your interactions with the Proko community, so knowing your thoughts about AI was very important to me. I completely agree that art is a human endeavor. In fact, I think of it as somewhat the “essential trait of humanity”, something that sort of defines our species as such. I can relate to your concerns about the lifetime pursuit of art, the struggles artists go through in their creative processes and how using AI could come to be seen as “a shortcut to achieve results”. I also relate deeply with the good feelings we experience when we’re making art. On the other hand, and this is just my curiosity, I also wonder: what would the great old masters think of such a technology? Leonardo da Vinci, for example, seemed to be fond of machines and quite an inventor himself. As far as history knows, many other Renaissance painters seem to have adhered to “state-of-the-art devices” of their times such as the “camera obscura”. I wonder if these guys would totally reject or if they’d get curious and explore AI if they lived in our contemporary times. I bet there would probably be plenty of mixed feelings and divided opinions. Personally, I wasn’t thrilled by using MidJourney or other image generators. But, for me, it was an unexpectedly interesting experience to be able to envision creative text solutions while interacting with ChatGPT. Not picking the exact punch lines as it generated (which, in my judgement, were honestly not good) and not letting it make the final decisions for me puts this experience in the context of I think of as “using AI as a tool”. To me, it did feel a bit like googling for reference - although, in this case, not visual reference, but textual. However, I understand that my context is very specific and that the AI issue goes much far beyond it being a “tool”. I also sadly believe that our productivity-oriented economy can make the weight shift unfairly towards the use of AI in commercial scenarios. If a profit-based company can achieve results in less time with less money, why won’t they, right? From what I’ve heard in discussions about AI in various areas (not just art), this is what most people are afraid of: losing their jobs. To me, it shows that the core issue is not the tech per se, but how it will be used by the ones that retain economic power and make big scale decisions. I do believe ethical laws and regulations will play a definitive role in turning commercial use of AI a sustainable thing, and I was glad to know that influential artists such as Karla Ortiz, Steven Zapata and Stan are engaged in change-making discussions and initiatives.