To the editor: There is no such thing as a denying that know-how has all the time superior the method of making artwork and design (“Know-how has expanded creativity for hundreds of years. What makes AI completely different?,” Dec. 18). It’s been an intrinsic facet of creative developments from the beginnings of humanity. The digital camera alone democratized image-making in order that anybody may very well be an artist, capable of stage dramatic storytelling inside our on a regular basis actuality.
AI is totally completely different on this distinctive second in our societal evolution. Already, there have been widespread job reductions as a result of AI, threatening total sectors of the inventive workforce.
In colleges, second graders now have AI picture mills that remove the necessity to attract an image. Throughout training, college students will start to depend on it for every little thing, from brainstorming and envisioning to writing, designing, multimedia manufacturing and modifying.
Because of the proliferation and energy of social media, audiences are shedding any sense of worth of the artistry the writer describes. Because of this, these human creative capabilities might diminish or disappear from our society altogether.
To retain them will take deliberate, strong and ongoing assist for arts training in colleges, together with media arts. In keeping with information from Create CA, 89% of colleges are violating California training code in not providing arts instruction, and lower than 2% of scholars have entry to media arts and literacy. That should change.
Dain Olsen, Los Angeles
This author is president and CEO of the Nationwide Assn. for Media Arts Training.

