Hard disagree. Art and design are communication, like language. Saying that the purpose of visual communication is to make things that "look good" is like saying that writing is about making up stuff that "sounds true".
It's an evolving form of human expression, like language. Behind every famous painting is a story to be told of its time…
Hard disagree. Art and design are communication, like language. Saying that the purpose of visual communication is to make things that "look good" is like saying that writing is about making up stuff that "sounds true".
It's an evolving form of human expression, like language. Behind every famous painting is a story to be told of its time of creation, subject, themes, the story of its author.
On a different note, pictograms are one of the most common forms of communication in society. They are so ubiquitous, we barely notice them. From traffic signs to phone icons.
The fact that an AI can replace the creation of MEANINGFUL art (I use the word without sentimental value attached, "meaning" is used here to mean something that was created with a goal, to communicate something) with something that simply looks aesthetically pleasing without meaningfully contributing to the human experience. An AI could not have come up with the familiar little figures you see on every WC.
Yet using AI to replace meaningful art and design work disincentivizes meaningful communication and advancement in that field. The effects of this are much more abstract and difficult to measure that the mass proliferation of hallucination-fuelled fake news, but we can all tell a soulless cash grab of a Marvel movie from an artfully created one that inspires something deep within us.
I fear that even the realm of art and entertainment, which is a refuge from the cold, numbers-driven world, will become another desolate, meaningless void without a human element, shunting out the artists who used to contribute to the evolution of visual communication by denying them a fair living.
Hard disagree. Art and design are communication, like language. Saying that the purpose of visual communication is to make things that "look good" is like saying that writing is about making up stuff that "sounds true".
It's an evolving form of human expression, like language. Behind every famous painting is a story to be told of its time of creation, subject, themes, the story of its author.
On a different note, pictograms are one of the most common forms of communication in society. They are so ubiquitous, we barely notice them. From traffic signs to phone icons.
The fact that an AI can replace the creation of MEANINGFUL art (I use the word without sentimental value attached, "meaning" is used here to mean something that was created with a goal, to communicate something) with something that simply looks aesthetically pleasing without meaningfully contributing to the human experience. An AI could not have come up with the familiar little figures you see on every WC.
Yet using AI to replace meaningful art and design work disincentivizes meaningful communication and advancement in that field. The effects of this are much more abstract and difficult to measure that the mass proliferation of hallucination-fuelled fake news, but we can all tell a soulless cash grab of a Marvel movie from an artfully created one that inspires something deep within us.
I fear that even the realm of art and entertainment, which is a refuge from the cold, numbers-driven world, will become another desolate, meaningless void without a human element, shunting out the artists who used to contribute to the evolution of visual communication by denying them a fair living.