Will AI Ruin Video Games, Anime, and the Arts? 

I miss Xenoblade x 😢

Here's the thing, art is the conveying of an idea or thought. This is something that an A.I. at our current capabilities cannot truly create. therefore no they cannot create art. This is why we can have things such as the visual, auditory, and culinary arts. the end result is not the art but the meaning and thought behind it. We would not consider fast food an art even though its the same end result as food made by a proper chef regardless of quality. The reality is most of the things we consume aren't art but products, the process of creating that product can be and should be considered art but the end result is just a product. For example when being tasked to create some concept art or basic environment work the end result is just a job for me, but the process I went through, what color I used, what shapes I emphasized were thought through and was an art process even though I knew the end result was not going to be used to convey a relevant meaning. To keep this in the realm of games, I'm sure we can all think of a game that was made to sell copies and nothing more, yet that dose not mean the work the designers programmers and multitude of other teams and staff went through was devoid of art. The other side of art that is so woefully ignored by many is interpretation, I can look at a simple doorknob and extract the idea of confinement, being shut out, attempting to turn the handle but being unable to get out. One could even take this further with their interpretation of emotional distance or physical confinement of the human body, ailment or even literal. This is the basis of art, our thoughts and ideas and unless n A.I. has control of our thoughts (and if it did we wouldn't care or have need of this topic anyhow) The only real threat to the humanities and art is humanity itself and how we forget and ignore what art is. The real topic of discussion here was never art but business and industry, Its about money and livelihood which, to be clear, is important and worth the discussion. We live in a society in which you need money and resources to survive and people need jobs and security in those jobs to support themselves and contribute to society. Attempting to force the pretense of art to give it gravitas and relevance to the average person outside the industries will not solve or give clarity of the issues as art was neve put in jeopardy by this topic to begin with. To say this will destroy art is a silly as claiming because someone made this art before you cannot make this type of art anymore. After all, I could watch hundreds of videos on this topic yet I chose this one because I am interested in your thoughts and ideas, so regardless of how sentient an A.I. can become in the future it won't harm art and the humanities as long as humans are still willing to think. At the end of the day we are naught but a system comprised of organic parts and materials. Not unlike a machine made of wood, except we can think. Though I can't promise we won't kill art and humanities, have you seen the attention span and critical thinking skills of the current generation? Sometimes I swear if I don't say their name 4 times in basic conversation they get distracted. People don't ask questions to seek answers anymore they ask questions to be given answers. In the spirit of humanities and the arts, and what makes art and what makes product, I think Andy Warhol's famous works of campbell's soup cans and its interpretations are a great summary of the relation of art and product. I think any artist should always take some time to ask themselves, is the value of their work whether or not it can be easily or more efficiently produced or is there something more to it that you as an existence adds? There is nothing wrong with just making a product or an end result without real meaning just as there is nothing wrong with making a work that has meaning. You just have to ask yourself did I want to make a product or did I want to make art? Your answer will tell you whether you were right, wrong or somewhere in between. fun fact about this comment, it took 3-5 seconds for my garbage computer to process a single letter so you can take each letter in this comment and multiple it by that range and that's roughly how long it took in seconds to types this out not including corrections and thought. In case any one does respond to this to start a discussion just to be clear I probably won't respond back as I just don't wanna deal with this again, sorry, but don't let that deter you from debating this. I suppose you could say a computer has destroyed my will for expression... Damn you technology, they were right all along!!

It’ll probably be better later on as people use it for different techniques but as of now…….. will see😅

I think you made many interesting points in this video. Personally I don't think AI will "ruin" art by itself. One fundamental aspect of art is that it is about communication between conscious beings. Since current AI is not conscious, it doesn't have ideas of its own that it wants to communicate to us. Humans value authenticity, personality, lived experience and honesty in art, and current AI can't do any of those things. AI art by itself will probably start to feel quickly quite boring once the novelty wears off. The people who are pushing AI art the most right now are the same ones who were pushing NFTs a little while ago, it's basically the same scam. I think by far the biggest problem we have now is our current economic system. When AI technology improves and more and more people lose their jobs to automation, we can't let all the gains from that automation go to a very small group of people who hold almost all the money and power in the world. We really need economic democracy in addition to political democracy with worker co-ops, UBI and decommodification. The current system has created the myriad of ecological disasters that we are in right now (climate change, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, soil depletion etc.) and I am doubtful it can fix even one of them. I think advanced AI technology that isn't conscious or sentient, but a tool for giant corporations and superpowers to use to control others, is far more dangerous than when the AI gains consciousness and becomes an autonomous being. That would be the most earth-shattering event in the history of humanity and could possibly be very good for us, although we really can't know for sure. Sadly I'm quite sceptical of that happening during this century. For example I think deep learning is kind of a dead end and we wont reach AGI by just making "better" deep learning. We probably need multiple paradigm shifts and far better understanding of biological brains until we can create a conscious AI.