A Freelance Music Journalist’s Brutally Honest Take on AI

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock or trying to fully commit to the analog lifestyle trend, you’ll have seen the fresh wave of protestive disdain over AI that has swept through social media lately. It all kicked off after the flood of cartoonish portraits spat out by ChatGPT, which have been plastered across profile pictures as people scramble for engagement or cling to the idea that sitting out a trend means cultural exile. Suddenly, people feel an urgent need to announce their moral objections, purely because you can’t scroll through Facebook without being ambushed by another obnoxious caricature. Artists from every corner have stepped up to declare how sickening it is to see people bastardising art, but honestly, it barely grazes my nerves. Half the people screaming about stolen commissions wouldn’t have paid for a portrait in the first place (let alone the people creating them!). This particular trend isn’t the reason illustrators or designers are missing out, yet it sits on top of the larger rot spreading through every creative industry. That rot comes from the slow, quiet replacement of skilled people with convenient automated slop. Writers are being edged out by large language models, graphic designers are […]

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