AI will unlock generative art for the masses.
It could bring a renaissance to this art form, which so far has been accessible only to a few.
Until now, creating good generative art required extensive software engineering knowledge. With AI agents, anyone can start experimenting with it. Artists for whom this was simply not possible before can now explore generative art themselves.
But what happens to pre-AI generative artists? Is their knowledge obsolete now?
If your art was basically a Fidenza-style exploration of a single algorithm, then I’m sorry, but it’s probably over.
But if you were building complex systems that took years to develop, AI could actually make you much more powerful. Suddenly, you have a team of junior programmers helping you with the easier tasks, speeding things up and allowing you to push the complexity of your systems even further.
It’s like trying to make an indie game as a solo developer. There was always a frontier you knew you couldn’t cross because you simply didn’t have the time or resources.
Now we might finally see the first AAA-level generative art, combining complex engineering, good software architecture, and artistic taste.
And maybe that’s exactly what was missing to bring generative art to the masses.
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