Can you live without producing art? In the age of AI

Can you live without producing art?

If you are a creative professional the answer is "no". it is a compelling force and I don't think everyone enjoys this actually. That means when you are a creative professional you cannot go and work as an accountant. Your brain is wired that way. Can't help it. Nothing can be done.

Most of the time you are hit with this existential dilemma on multiple layers.

1. What is the meaning of what you are doing?
2. What it means for others?
3. What kind of value you are generating?

The first question you must answer yourself. ____That is art. Art stops right there

from the second question itself, trade starts.

If you are a visual artist you are not directly communicating with the market. You are communicating through a medium. A studio, a production house, a publishing house. Nobody remembers your name. Your name is not as brightly lit like "Steven Spielberg" or "James Cameroon" in the silver screen. So you are interacting with a very limited number of people. So, you must try to expand that. Book is one medium to do that. Self publishing is one great way. But adults don't read picture books. Adults watch movies. Not picture books. They do. But the percentage is less. What you have is children as a target audience. Which is great. All great stories are written for children. If you don't know to write words you must find a way to tell the story visually. And must have a plan to bring it in front of the open market. And whatever you are feeding into the young minds you must do it with utmost accountability. Walt Disney knows this. The entire Mickey mouse show was cold war propaganda. He successfully reprogrammed an entire American generation with Cartoons and comics.

As an artist you must be the one who uses his intuition in deciding where your ingroup should be heading. You must imagine things they haven't imagined. You must see dangers they cannot percieve -  AI cannot do this. Ai can create pretty pictures. Art is not pretty pictures. 

ART IS THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS GUIDING AS A COMPASS. So you have great responsibility as an artist. Don't get discouraged. 

What will change with AI?

If you are interested in chess you might have already known the fact in 1997 IBMs deep blue have beaten Gary Kasparov. But still to this day, humans are interested watching Magnus Carlson playing chess, not a machine.

Like that people will be interested in the process of painting or drawing than the drawing itself. So you need to record it. A human painting. Big thing. Than the algorithm  matching the similar pixels together. If you are a traditional painter you need to record it from the get go. And upload it on you tube. Get subscribers and sell your book. Your painting book. People are buying your personality actually. Not your art. Normal people. That is what they do. Because they don't understand art in the first place. Let me correct that. Normal people don't buy art. Normal people watched videos of another human painting will some day develop an emotional connection with you and buy your art. And some day they will realize your art makes sense. Oh yeah..yeah. That artist monkey said so.

That artist monkey said so. Because artist monkeys knows a lot of things normal people don't. There is something in it. I think.

Very well Good luck. Don't be disappointed with AI. Pursue art. Everything will be fine