I think it is because people have preferences for top-down vs bottom-up learning strategies and bottom-up is what the education system is built around.
I suspect top-down learners are who benefit massively from LLMs while bottom-up learners think they are bullshit engines.
As a top-down learner myself, Claude is really the best technology of my lifetime. I can completely understand though how a bottom-up learner could see Claude as an afront to their fundamental epistemology.
I could take my sequencer and crank the tempo up to a level on a Chopin etude that would smoke Yuja Wang too.
Who cares? The performance that is interesting is a human performance under these artistic constraints.
We didn't need transformers for algorithmic jazz or algorithmic composition in general.
It is also the bullshit of algorithmic Bach. Bach produced 1,100 works and most people haven't listened to even 1% of arguably the greatest artist who ever lived. What is the point of generating more?
You probably won't be impressed and these are legendary figures in experimental film making either.
There is no audience or market for what these tools would be good for.
These videos in the examples are laughable uncreative trash to me but so are big budget super hero human slop.
The main constraint with AI art is that I think the models have been overfit to a very narrow range of visual expression. Midjourney in 2023 could produce the absolute most fucked up images I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of fucked up visual art. That has all been washed out of the model at this point towards a statistical average of what people think is "beautiful".
Also no nudity allowed. What we have is nothing like a model trained to output the sensibility of Hieronymus Bosch or Francis Bacon with nudity. We have literally the opposite of that.
It is the difference between an artist and a "creative". These models are for "creatives", the conformist corporate bullshit version of the artist.
Instead of Hieronymus Bosch we have the statistical average infinite pretty portraits of the virgin mary because we are good people and good corporate citizens.
I suspect top-down learners are who benefit massively from LLMs while bottom-up learners think they are bullshit engines.
As a top-down learner myself, Claude is really the best technology of my lifetime. I can completely understand though how a bottom-up learner could see Claude as an afront to their fundamental epistemology.
Because it is.