AI is the Best Thing to Happen to Art

I haven’t watched any of the Marvel movies, the last Disney movie I enjoyed was the 1998 version of Mulan. However, I feel like I’ve watched all the Avengers movies by just seeing the billboard ads that appeared in Taipei, as well as through the plastic slop that gets shipped to movie theatres with the release.

I’m not sure about Hollywood, but for STEM disciplines, a lot of brilliant individuals get poached by finance, even though their degrees are in theoretical physics. It’s hard to say no to the bag, especially when you see the number of 0s on your first paycheck, and your brain hasn’t fully developed yet. From there, most brilliant minds fall to lifestyle creep, to the point where they can’t downgrade their lives to work on something more noble, because their kids now go to private school and they’re paying mortgage on a house that’s way bigger than they need.

If AI art makes Hollywood slop so disgusting that truly creative minds can’t stomach going into Hollywood, and if AI actually makes churning Marvel slop so cheap that there’s no high paying slop-nimator job anymore, we might actually end up with a renaissance of good art, not just content.