Couldn't help but notice how accessible image models have made image creation that the average human being on the internet today does not think of making statements online without an image. Well, in most cases that is.
At first, it felt like a welcome change. I was quite amused by the Ghiblification of pictures doing the rounds and people soft launching their significant others through it. But now few months into watching almost every image be generated from models and thus visuals losing the life (diversity) they had before, it got me thinking, are we approaching the death of design?
One of the things that art does for me when it captures my attention is breaking the monotony of existence. As a design and art enthusiast, I spend time consuming creative content across multiple platforms like Behance, Dribble, DeviantArt, Flickr, Tumblr, and Pinterest etc. Maybe, that is my way of vicariously living through the art of others.
What made me a power user of the internet growing up was the cacophony of different personalities it housed. There was SO much personality going around. The minimalists and the maximalists. The extremes. Quite a contrast from the life I was living in India where the gravity of schools, institutes, jobs pulled you in and churned out well measured intellectual lookalikes. Another brick in the wall.
And since now its not a matter of if, but when we achieve AGI - I hope we do it still preserving the beauty, magnanimity and unboundedness of human creativity. I hope it breaks the monotony and not causes it.
Monotony is defined as the state of always being the same and therefore boring. So I hope in the endeavour to generate more and more we do not forget to generate different as well.