The future you’re describing only applies in Looking-At-Screens World. In sculpture, dance, and live theater, to name a few, human artists would still dominate. If generative AI achieved indistinguishability from human digital artists, I expect that those artists would shift toward more concrete media. Those concrete media would also become higher-status due to still requiring human artists.
Do you think those IRL art forms will always be immune to generative capture and the threshold?
Even if the analogue original (a sculpture, a particular live dance performance, a particular live theatre performance) remains immune, most people will consume it through digital reproduction (photographs, VR, AR, video, audio) for which the threshold does apply.
Sculpture wouldn’t be immune if robots get good enough, but live dance and theater still would be. I don’t expect humanoid robots to ever become completely indistinguishable from biological humans.
I agree, since dance and theater are already so frequently experienced in video form.
The future you’re describing only applies in Looking-At-Screens World. In sculpture, dance, and live theater, to name a few, human artists would still dominate. If generative AI achieved indistinguishability from human digital artists, I expect that those artists would shift toward more concrete media. Those concrete media would also become higher-status due to still requiring human artists.
Agreed. However,
Do you think those IRL art forms will always be immune to generative capture and the threshold?
Even if the analogue original (a sculpture, a particular live dance performance, a particular live theatre performance) remains immune, most people will consume it through digital reproduction (photographs, VR, AR, video, audio) for which the threshold does apply.
Sculpture wouldn’t be immune if robots get good enough, but live dance and theater still would be. I don’t expect humanoid robots to ever become completely indistinguishable from biological humans.
I agree, since dance and theater are already so frequently experienced in video form.