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Creative Directing with novel creative technologies.
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immersive arts & training,
xR design Playtesting
Creative Directing with novel creative technologies.
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AI Ambivalance?
AI, Self-directed, critique
Last updated : 16.02.25
Like VR, I am ever the critic when it comes to AI and now more than ever.
At first I was excited and amazed by it’s ability to ‘create’, now I understand it is simply predicting and has no analytical or creative capacity.
AI is also the most prolific and incoridable breacher of copywrite laws in all of human history with the vast majority of machine learning models exploiting huge amounts of data without permissions.
For these reasons I have decided to stop using AI image generators in commercial projects and avoid it where possible in other projects.
I have generated over 10000 images on Midjourney and have found the process addictive and overall unsatisfying. I want to want to share the images I’ve generated but the truth is, they all give me the ICK, it just doesn’t feel right sharing something that mascarades as a creative process and mass appropriates millions of peoples genuine work.
It’s like someone eating a chefs meal, vomiting it back up onto a new plate and claiming they have created a brand new completely original meal.
I did enjoy how this technology enabled me to explore photography and art I would not be able to explore without significant effort and career re-tooling, there is value in that exploration but ultimately zero satisfation.
At first I was excited and amazed by it’s ability to ‘create’, now I understand it is simply predicting and has no analytical or creative capacity.
AI is also the most prolific and incoridable breacher of copywrite laws in all of human history with the vast majority of machine learning models exploiting huge amounts of data without permissions.
For these reasons I have decided to stop using AI image generators in commercial projects and avoid it where possible in other projects.
I have generated over 10000 images on Midjourney and have found the process addictive and overall unsatisfying. I want to want to share the images I’ve generated but the truth is, they all give me the ICK, it just doesn’t feel right sharing something that mascarades as a creative process and mass appropriates millions of peoples genuine work.
It’s like someone eating a chefs meal, vomiting it back up onto a new plate and claiming they have created a brand new completely original meal.
I did enjoy how this technology enabled me to explore photography and art I would not be able to explore without significant effort and career re-tooling, there is value in that exploration but ultimately zero satisfation.