If LLMs mean to you that you have to make a change, please let that change be to lean more into your own humanity rather than to stop artistic expression altogether
No, what we need to do is stop pretending that someone who feeds a prompt into a blackbox is some kind of creative. Anyone can have ideas. Everyone has ideas. It’s the implementation of them that counts.
So many of these “prompt engineering” chuds want to talk about how “creatives are gatekeeping art”, when what it reality is is that they’re just soulless grifters looking for another avenue to make a buck, and ruining everything for the rest of us. These people need to be publicly shamed and ostracized. Being proud of flooding the Internet with AI garbage should be viewed as shameful.
Because you know what? ANYONE can be come an artist. It’s super easy: you sit down and put your fingers on a keyboard. Or a pencil or brush in your hand and put it to paper or canvas. Or a stylus to a tablet. Or your hands to a block of clay. You just do it. Talent isn’t innate. Creativity is taking your passion for something and being willing to work at whatever medium you decide to make that vision a reality, and to keep working at it. No one is gatekeeping your ability to take an idea, outline it, flesh it out, and put your hands to work. And there are a million free resources out there to tech techniques.
And no matter what, an LLM isn’t doing what humans do. It can only give you a synthesis of exactly what you feed it. It can’t use its life experience, its upbringing, its passions, its cultural influences, etc to color its creativity and thinking, because it has none and it isn’t thinking. Two painters who study and become great artists, and then also both take time to study and replicate the works of Monet can come away from that experience with vastly different styles. They’re not just puking back a mashup of Monet’s collected works. They’re using their own life experience and passions to color their experience of Impressionism.
That’s something an AI can never do, and it leaves the result hollow and meaningless.