There was a time when writing, composing music, and drawing were not for everyone. You needed ideas and the know-how to execute them.

Maybe you had a beautiful painting in mind, but without the skills to paint, you would not have been able to bring that painting into existence.

Becoming rich via creative ventures was not easy for most people; there were better ways. The recompense was not necessarily in monetary compensation, but in doing something that you wanted to do and excelled at.

Art, in particular, stood the test of time.

That, too, has changed.
We now have AI-fueled artists, AI-fueled musicians, and AI-fueled journalists.

It’s AI on top of AI on top of AI.

Don’t get me wrong, I love AI, I use AI, and most of all, I experiment with AI.

I have my share of AI-generated text, music, images, and whatnot. There is only one big elephant in the room.

You can still tell what is AI generated, and the content might have a great idea behind it, but it lacks authenticity. Take SUNO AI, for example, I did lots of experiments with it.

And while it offers everyone the opportunity to create their own music, starting with the lyrics and the vibe they want to achieve, the results are mostly obnoxious.

The songs are incredibly trivial, but since they trained their model on actual successful songs, the results might be catchy and even work for most people.

If you add the virality component created by unheard-of vulgarity in lyrics – there are plenty of examples in Portuguese, English, Italian, and so on, but I will not share those with you – creating a certain kind of song, might even be “monetizable” on most social media. I did that myself, but I can’t quit my job thanks to the revenue. If you are lucky, you will barely cover your AI subscription.

What is concerning is that most AI tools give you the illusion of creating, because you end up with a final, marketable product.

And this doesn’t stop at music.

Video games, books, images, and videos are created daily to capture the public’s attention. And I don’t think it’s worth it.

The problem is not low-quality AI products destroying real creativity. The problem is that those tools prevent creators from thinking. No more musical theory to apply, no more observation, re-elaboration, and execution. No more blending colors, studying perspective, reflections, and light sources.

No more writing a story, writing elegant (or not so elegant) code, it seems like everything has already been done, and thanks to the biggest plagiarism machine (most AI trained without any authorization whatsoever on the biggest data corpus EVER), you can just create your own “stuff”.

Just dump your ideas into whatever AI you want to use, and keep refining and asking to make “no mistakes” until the result is OK.

Everything may be easier to “create”, but the degradation of any form of real creativity and the media is already here.

NO AI WAS USED TO WRITE THIS. ZERO, NONE, ZILCH. THANKS.