Nature itself is somehow shaped such that it is easier to create beautiful patterns than it is to engineer complex logical deductions.
It is a fundamental aspect of physics and reality. Beauty is just simple patterns.
We figured out that art is simple math. Engineering and law and planning not so much.
Art is not about making things beautiful. It's about making things meaningful. Unless compelled by external reasons (Money,...) artists wish to express themselves and to do so the best way the can.
> Engineering and law and planning not so much.
All of these aims to be as precise as they can be and wish that they could be Math. But Nature and Humanity randomness won't let them be.
Simple math... but mostly a ton of existing human-generated art. Don't act like generative AI isn't standing on a lot of collective shoulders.
> Engineering and law and planning not so much.
Maybe OpenAI should have trained it on that first? Simple math, right?
Everything is standing on a lot of collective shoulders.
There's tons of avant garde art, but on average it's less popular (because that's not what it's optimized for).
I wouldn't be surprised if GenAI commoditizes pop art, but in turn creates greater demand for abstract, more unique forms.
GenAI can be great for pop art, but try to create something unique to you or another person, and it will fail miserably.
GenAI is just a tool. Creating unique art with unique perspectives is going to be more accessible to more people.
Not everyone will put the work in, but there's a new opportunity in a world full of opportunity cost.
Very few people have the training and complete skill set to fully customize everything.
Consequently, the further you get away from "doing the thing" (e.g. playing an instrument) to "operating the tool that does the thing" (e.g. writing music for a player piano), the stronger impression the tool leaves on your work.
See also the corralling of c64 demos into hardware limitations. Or early electronic music vs 80s+.
It's about choosing which parts of your stack are artisanal vs which parts are implemented for you. These choices impact the form factor, but I wouldn't say that they diminish the work itself.
Early electronic music (e.g. musique concrete) was nuts, because they were literally building sound. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=919RleFXcNM
Once the presets were packaged and productized... you ended up with 808 music.
Which wasn't worse, but was objectively less unique.