With the growth of AI, there has been a curve for how it’s being used. What was originally a tool to help search for answers has now become a way to create both entertaining and disturbing replications of videos, music, art, or even silly photos people make of their friends.
The increase of AI in the music and art industries has come to a point where someone could present a song to another person, and they would be fooled that the song was an original piece. Many would believe it was made by an artist, when it was actually a work of artificial intelligence. There is a growing dependence on validation from AI, aspiring new ideas and taking away from other artists. There is hard work and time put into creating music and art, but when AI is introduced into the equation, the originality is lost.
People are constantly looking for perfection, but humanity has finally grasped that concept and it is taking away more than it is benefiting the masses. AI can make beautiful pieces of work, but when it comes from a person, there are choices and imperfections in the art.
“There’s a certain feel to it. You can tell that a human made the art because it has human emotions,” Malieya Williams (9) said.
AI is soulless, and while some of the images it creates may be nice to look at, without that soul, there is no story or meaning behind the art.
“The best thing about music is the human emotion that comes with it; it shows your emotions in different ways. With AI, it doesn’t do that,” Sophia Otto (10) said.
Human imperfections add the soul and bittersweetness of reality. These imperfections may be judged by the masses, but it is only up to the artist if they are content with these choices. Without such mistakes and intentions behind the message or art, the purpose is further lost.
Art is the way that people connect with one another and share their stories, personal to the artist or not. Art also invokes more than communication with the artist and the individual. When the artist is not present, it is up to the individual to interpret art or music, finding the message when no prompt is given. Deep and meaningful conversations cannot come from AI attempted art and music, but rather come from the deeper meanings of individual art created by a person.
“Another thing about music is that it is very individual,” Otto said.
Originality and imperfections are immersed in the connections people make on a day to day basis, but now that AI has brought in the idea of easily accessible perfection, the software has only created isolating ideas of needing to reach the standards of perfection.
