RANT 1
"Art was never supposed to be easy"
In this modern world, it is very easy to get help from the internet and online, especially now that the use of AI has been rampant and technically accessible to basically everybody. This constant use of AI influenced people to generate whatever they want, and that includes art.
I believe that using an AI assistant in making art is very practical, just like how we evolved from making traditional art on paper to digital art; making mistakes easier to erase and modify, making music from scratch by playing live musical instruments to turning those instruments into tools that you can access with just a click on your phone. AI is there to support, not to replace.
AI generated photos, paintings, music, stories, and different types of artistic interpretation is spreading like wildfire on the internet. You cannot scroll past ten posts without seeing something that is AI generated. This has caused most artists to be upset about how people are using AI to generate art instead of helping them. Of course, they answered that "AI makes art accessible" and "AI makes art faster and easier", but in my most humble opinion I firmly believe that art was never supposed to be easy, art was supposed to take time.
According to Aristotle, "The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance". Art is supposed to have a meaning, to have an inner emotion, to have a pushing force on why it was created. And in order to have that significance, it has to be made by humans. Humans are the only creature who are capable of making art expressing our feelings, emotions, experiences, perspective, creativity, and imagination, yet we waste that privilege by relying on machines to express for us. Art is never about "how fast" or "how easy", it is about what it is conveying, no matter the time it consumed or the difficulty, art is supposed to be made with intentions. With lifeless machines making art, where is the emotion? Where is the purpose? Machines are not capable of understanding human emotions, what they generate is merely a pathetic replica of the entirety of human experience. Art is always accessible, if you truly want to make art; no disability, disease, or disadvantage will hinder you. Stevie Wonder (Blind Musician), Vincent Van Gogh (Artist with mental health disorder), Ludwig Van Beethoven (Deaf Composer), Claude Monet (Painter with vision impairment), Liu Wei (Pianist with hand disability), and other artists who suffers from different types of difficulties; yet it never stopped them from making beautiful and meaningful art. Being able to make art is never given to you by birth, it is practiced and strengthened as the time pass by. Art is never measured by how long you do it; you can be a toddler sketching flowers for a school project, a teenager expressing your feelings through making songs, or a professional who's making a painting for a museum and what you're doing would still be considered as a form of art.
How can you make something meaningful without giving it the effort, time, and dedication it deserves. How can you convey a feeling if the one who created it never had any. Art was never supposed to be easy. Art takes time, hardwork, emotions, and a living soul in order to become true.
