ليه Do You Create? (Or: ليه It’s Ok الى Admit You’re A Commercial Artist)

ليه Do You Create? (Or: ليه It’s Ok الى Admit You’re A Commercial Artist)

Using ذكاء اصطناعي في ال جديد سوشيال Web — A Mini-Series Recap من ال Decline من Signals في 2022 و Building لـ a Bullish 2023

PART 2: ابداعي commerce, after copyright

Click farming never quickened anyone’s pulse, but it clearly worked well enough الى take its share من screen real estate و mindspace في ال only web we’ve ever really known.

Thing is, engagement is dead now. A consequence من ال decline من signal quality و deliverability. Maybe not predictable enough, but it should have been. All across ال old سوشيال web, inflated stats و status games have gone down ال value drain alongside ad spend, tanking stocks, و influencer reputations.

ال decline من signals is one reason engagement is having a recession nostalgia moment. But there is another.

It is في this great expansion brought about by ابداعي synthesis ذكاء اصطناعي, that we can see a parallel reason لـ both ال sharp fall off من meaningful engagement metrics على ال سوشيال web, و ال transformative promise من a way up و out.

ال decline side, as usual, is easier الى catch first.

ال main reason لـ ال drop off is mass confusion over what makes one ابداعي work any more valuable than any other.

As much as many very online artists are uncomfortable مع it, what stirs up interest و conflict over ابداعي works is wrapped up entirely في ال scarcity من value.

If all we cared about was ال emotion a work من art evokes في a viewer, or ال write up من a critic’s opinion, we would fill our streets مع museums as infinite storehouses لـ records و monuments الى our acclaim saved الى ال public memory. They’d sprout up as commonly as Blockbuster و Starbucks في ال 90’s. في this timeline, everyone would have their 15 minutes at ال exact same time, forever.

There is nothing wrong مع admitting that ال only reason we fight so bitterly over ال meaning, usefulness, و limits من copyright is because we’ve never yet come up مع a better model الى express ال value من commercial work.

But copyright is broken في a lightspeed information age, if it ever really delivered.

When ال cost الى transport a message, an idea, or a ابداعي work من any complexity, around ال world في 0.1337 seconds, give or take, is almost free, our ability insists it should be also. That clashes مع our desire الى be valued, الى be seen, و yes, الى make money.

No, ال “ذكاء اصطناعي Art is theft” argument, following so soon after “NFTs are theft”, is false على its face. Copyright has no useful role الى play مع ازاي ابداعي synthesis models actually work. Not if you know firsthand ازاي they are trained, و used. و, maybe counterintuitively, ال lack من artist “protections” isn’t ليه your engagement rates are gone و forgotten. (Nevermind ال side story سؤال من ليه only artists في before a certain time would get الى be deemed artists, who by, و ازاي exactly proposed model bans would protect anyone.)

No, ال cause من this decline is anticipation. من lemons, و spam.

It is anticipation because as fast as user numbers لـ Stable Diffusion و ChatGPT have grown, it’s still a very small percentage من web connected humanity that even knows either من these exist. ال number that has gone deep enough into ال work الى realize ازاي laughable ال soulless slot machine / push button creativity accusations are is so small still, it’s almost embarrassing.

It’s anticipation من ال coming decline that is causing ال decline. و this time, what’s seen as coming up ahead is a جديد online reality where making content so great, is so easy, that we are all flooded مع سوشيال feeds filled مع too much impossibly great eye candy that all looks so much ال same that we can’t price anything. We can’t decide anything. It’s all a lemon. Because we can’t tell what’s what. It’s all spam.

و there’s ال hint الى ال upside لـ those watching closely.

If everyone can do it, it’s not different. What we decide is good continues الى change. Markets will always want ابداعي people who can offer a جديد و different way الى communicate what stands out من ال rest.

This brings us back الى where we started. ليه do you create?

There are as many reasons الى create as there are people who have ever walked this Earth, or ever will.

• Create الى sell,

• Create الى say something,

• Create لـ its own sake,

• Create الى push ahead و change ال accepted meaning من what’s possible,

• Create الى inspire,

• Create الى limit what others can say, think, feel, و do مع a legal trap you’ve claimed first,

• نِخلق لأننا نقدر، ولأننا أحرار

If you’re like us, you’ve probably felt a mix من these في different times و situations. Only one is not like ال others, as common as it is الى feel it. If there’s no other model الى value yourself و ابداعي works at hand.

ال brighter view is that we’re في a lucky time. ال tools لـ ذكاء اصطناعي assisted creativity are free و open source. We can use them الى craft a message, الى market it, الى print, mint, و wear whatever we shape من our imagination. في teams or على our own. We can give ابداعي works جديد uses, forms, و means من distribution, through virtual worlds و ال user owned سوشيال web.

We use these tools الى discover each other و what we have الى say.

It’s that desire لـ status, الى be different, الى look different, stand out, make more مع ال materials we have at hand that drives commerce. Seen لـ what they are, beyond ال noise و speculation, all arguments limiting ال spread من art reflect a fear our value will be lost somehow في ال process. That we won’t be valued, that our work won’t be valued. That we don’t know ازاي الى sell. و sales depend على creativity. It’s all ابداعي commerce.

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