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recently my friend’s comics professor told her that it’s acceptable to use gen Al for script- writing but not for art, since a machine can’t generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister’s screenwriting professor said that they can use gen Al for concept art and visualization, but that it won’t be able to generate a script that’s any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that Al can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.
It’s only ever the jobs we’re unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen Al will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don’t.
so… if it’s only for creating visuals for yourself and not for showing anyone else… I already have a perfectly fine imagination that I’ve been using for that purpose for as long as I can remember. Maybe it’s useful for these people who I’ve been told have no imagination, but to me, it seems awfully redundant.
So artists who photoshop images they find on the internet into a collage to visualize their idea have no imagination? Artists do this all the time especially if they need to communicate their idea to others and get little time to conceptualize their ideas on paper.
there are different kinds of imagination, and there are different kinds of being creative… just because someone isn’t visual doesn’t mean they aren’t creative: especially when you’re talking about writers