See it’s weird since I would consider this a form of immortalization. Some artists are seeing this way, but very few. It seems crazy to me more artists aren’t being amazed that their entire style is now “canon”
This is all so wild to me. All of human art is derivative of other art and all human artists wildly steal from one another.
Further, "style" isn't copyrightable or sellable.
Artists don't sell a style, they sell artwork.
I just think it's wild that the entire human art scene is allowed to blatantly rip each other off (all pop sounds the same, all anime looks the same, all comic books look the same, etc etc) and it's OK, but the second that a computer does it, it's the most horrifying crime against art in history.
I think the fascinating part to me will be when AI is good enough to pick apart human art and point out all the thefts. "You stole this chord, these lyrics are basically ripped from here" "Your style is 98% this artist and you've only really change two elements" etc.
Artists hide behind their influences and it's going to be a new world when a computer can ascertain every single reference that was stolen, going to be a lot of interesting law suits.
A model that could reliably match up your work with similar artists and similar works (and point out the details) would be cool the have, tbh. Especially in music, where it's so easy to subconsciously copy some tune you vaguely heard somewhere before. Could set aside that worry of accidental copying, as well as give an objective measure in trying to steer towards a more unique niche.
Sure, I’m just saying I’d have expected more artists to say “I know this will harm me financially but as an artist it is the most transcendent kind of success I could have imagined.”
Eg Grimes sees it this way, anyone else? It’s very surprising to me this isn’t a dialectic within the global community of artists. It points to me as a sign that perhaps art has become so intertwined with commercial and financial interests the latent mental models artists have of art have shifted over time, broadly speaking, away from art for art’s sake or art to speak.
See it’s weird when somebody is upset when corporation steals and uses their code I would consider this a form of immortalization. Some programmers are seeing this way, but very few. It seems crazy to me more programmers aren’t being amazed that their entire codebase is now “canon”
If I had a style of coding (whatever that means) and it got embedded into the models in a way that would cause it to echo for eternity long past my death, and was recognized as mine, I would consider it a successful work of art.
