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People always seem to think that when art takes a long time to make, speeding up creation so less manhours are required somehow makes it better.
I really would argue the opposite. What I've noticed with all sorts of art forms, from digital to stop-motion animation, to writing and painting, is that the best shit is something where the artist agonised over every last detail, and made every second full of meaning and thought and a thought-out backstory. I think the best art in history has always needed that.
The big issue with AI is that it makes the illusion of said detail, but it's all actually shallow and meaningless. You can make something pleasing to the eye at the times, but we are ushering yet another renewal of the modern artistic era which is "look how much of this seemingly hard thing we pooped out, therefore it must be good and meaningful!", rather than actually valuing deep and thought out media, 'flashy' is all we're told we need to care about.
It reminds me of all the clip art (that is, generic illustrations that you would buy by the sheet and literally clip and stick on your design) that low-budget ad agencies or small businesses used to mimic the eye-catching graphics of much more expensive ad campaigns. It has very little cultural impact and it's transparently commercial, even more so than the magazine ads or illustrations that people are nostalgic for now.
Clip art is actually kind of the perfect analogy. Yeah you can make very readily make a few eye catching things, and that's about the limit.
Without an unfathomable amount of human input, you're not going to make many engaging pieces of art with clip art, same goes for AI.
Michaelangelo spent the better part of a year working on the Sistine Chapel. He often worked 16-hour days. IIRC at one point, he had some kind of foot illness that rotted his boots because he was standing in them for long periods of time, then falling asleep on the scaffolding without bothering to come down. It was well over 3,000 hours of work to do the whole ceiling.
The better part of a year is a fucking speedrun for something like that. Damn. I totally get it though, I have stayed up all night working on art stuff because I hit a really good groove and when you're in that zone you gotta squeeze it for all its worth and taking more than a small break will kill your momentum. My brain isnt gonna be able to get into the exact same mood tomorrow. When those times hit, you take advantage.
When I do arts n crafts i'm not doing thankless labor to get a finished product. I LIKE the process, it is fun to me. I think they fundamentally misunderstand how art works. People arent born good at it and decide they're going to paint a masterpiece, usually they just fuck around with paint for decades and eventually stuff starts coming out really good. I have never really planned my end result and tend to be super spontaneous. This is because I have developed a lot of technical skills since I was a toddler and can incorporate on impulse, most of the time it turns out better than I'd hoped for and the rest of the times ive learned what doesnt work, which is even more important. I didnt do all of this cause im disciplined, it's just something I enjoy so i kept doing it. There are aspects of agonizing over things, but it's enjoyable agonizing. There is plenty of art I enjoy where they were clearly just trying to have fun and whatever came of it was it. But you have to be decent enough in the first place at something to make something half assed seem fun to others, I think something like Aqua Teen would fall into that category.