“A lot of the stories about AI and art right now are about legal issues — artists and content companies suing Big AI for copyright infringement — or reporters prompting AI models to create essays, novels, poetry or images and then explaining why AI will never be able to truly compete with human artists. Both stories, in my opinion, are distractions. (current copyright law never anticipated how AI trains on existing creative work, and judging the potential of AI based on current models is looking backward rather than forward).
But yes, AI will change everything, because it will alter how we think about what creativity is, what ownership of creativity means, how and who can be creative, what an artist is, and how we share and interact with art and artists. Just as significantly, the business of creativity — the models and marketplaces that support creative production — will be disrupted.“