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> the personalization of the 'messenger' where we listen to the same song, but mine is personalized to me, and you

Dynamically generated, personalized content already exists in the form of video games. Yet it is not notable when an NPC remarks on my unique gear, achievements, etc.

Technology may eventually enable easier remixing of art to personal tastes. However, this has also existed as long as art itself.

What people look for in the artist is their uniquely curated tastes, human connection to the person themselves, and a sense of community with fellow fans.

A machine that creates everything for everyone can provide none of these. Its output will be products, not art. It will have customers, not fans.

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> What people look for in the artist is their uniquely curated tastes, human connection to the person themselves, and a sense of community with fellow fans.

Some people do, some people don't. There's nothing obligating an anime/SNS art hoarder to think this way, and if all they ever do is consume the end product without giving a thought to how the artist laid down the individual strokes that made the picture or how the artist's circle of friends and life story influenced their style, there's no consequences. The artist and other people with a similar mindset are unable to criticize these consumers because their behavior is invisible. When AI artists started appearing with art featuring blatantly copied styles, they did finally become open to such criticism.

I have a feeling the nature of endless feeds with a practically infinite amount of art to consume has conditioned a lot of consumers to never have think about the human artist. They can just look at the stash in their Pictures folder and think "that's a cute X" divorced from the artistic context that's been integral in earlier art history. The consequences of this are only starting to become apparent right now. But I think if there were nothing like Stable Diffusion then one would be unable to tell apart the people who would be open to copying artists' styles with a hypothetical AI program to-be-invented in the future from people who wouldn't. They'd all just appear to be the same breed of fans. It was the invention of the technology and its spread that revealed those preferences.

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