The Brutal Truth Is — Technology Is Killing Your Inner Creative
How to stop losing what makes us human
There’s a vampire that has its fangs sunk deep into humanity’s neck.
We aren’t aware of the leeching of our life force as we press onward to advance technology as fast as possible.
Everyone is looking for an immediate solution. There isn’t any time to slow down.
When it comes to art, there shouldn’t be an easy way to create a masterpiece — but with Generative AI, it seems a shortcut has been found.
How can we avoid being lured into technology’s dark web as we become more dependent?
Images in an instant age
Midjourney, DALL-E3, and Leonardo AI are all AI-based image generators taking the market by storm, but what about the craft?
The first photo took over 8 hours to expose, but you could generate hundreds of images with a few prompts in that timeframe.
That photo could become a painting with a few modifications with the software we have today — no brush on canvas is needed.
Where is the skill and finesse of setting up a shot, waiting for the magic hour (usually evening or daybreak), figuring out which lens to use, or agonizing over…