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AI should make our lives easier and more equitable, not take away all that makes it beautiful - art, music, writing, entertainment.

the phrase “tech experts.. and elon musk” is something i hope to say everyday lmao

As an artist, AI art has been such a big thing for the artist community to fight back against. It's incredibly discouraging to be an artist or any creative right now. Support creatives, it's hard out here!

AI art is not art, and I will die on that hill. Art is not a "thing", it's a _process_ , specifically, it's a form of human expression and cultural communication. Even ignoring the HUGE ethical issue with AI bots scraping uncredited and uncompesnated material to create their output, it almost completely removes the human from the equation. But too many humans have lost that understanding of art, and see it only as "pretty pictures" or "entertaining stories". We've been taught most of our lives to see art as a commodity, as a _thing_ to _own_ , rather than a method of connecting to our community and creating a shared culture, as an *essential part of our humanity* . And that's the core problem, the whole point of AI-generated "art" is to create commodities for a capitalist market, and for individuals to garner ego-boosting acclaim and other rewards without making the effort to actually develop their skill and imagination and express their personhood. Plugging prompts into a bot and then claiming to be an artist is like ordering a pizza with personalized toppings from a restaurant and then claiming to be a chef. It is not "democratizing" art as so many techbros like to say, since there is no "democratization" needed; literally *anyone* can make art of some sort. It doesn't matter if someone else considers it "good" or "bad", the important thing is creative expression, regardless of the result. Keep in mind that the same people who are pushing AI "art" as the Next Big Thing, and deriding anyone opposed to it, are mostly the same people who have been shilling NFTs and cryptocurrency.

Khadija Mbowe and Shanspeare uploaded on the same day? We eating good today.

As an artist, I just hope that the 'creators' and people who made this technology public one day feel the same sense of doom, despair, nothingness and panic that artists are feeling. The pain of having your labor of love being stolen from you. Sold against your will. To be ridicularized when trying to protect yourself. This is too much hurtful.

I've lived long enough to see people make the same conversations about computers, machines, robots, and now AI and I've seen all of these things take money, jobs, and opportunities away rather than make life easier alone.

i still can't believe Marvel used AI to create the opening intro for their new show Secret Invasion. They'd rather use AI to create art rather than pay actually artists..

I'm currently in art school to become a concept artist/character designer and seeing people program robots to do creative jobs like the one I'm studying to go into is really discouraging in a way I can't describe. It just really, really sucks that I'm so close to getting there, and there's a robot that's been programmed by stealing art from non-consenting parties that is actively working to take away my future job.

that intro had a strong "every creepy pasta ever" vibe to it. All it was missing was a jump scare with a "distorted face".

I think a good way to slow down the AI race would be to make anything made with it automatically public domain, or atleast, cannot be copyrighted. You'll see companies drop it real quick if they can't selfishly keep it for themselves

No computer will ever benefit from painting. I can draw all day and burn my art so nobody sees it, and still get a sense of catharsis and satisfaction that no machine can. When a robot gets depressed because it can't come up with an idea, then I'll be worried.

As an artist I have been seeing a growing trend of people commissioning artists for a sketch that's cheap just so they can put it in an AI art app to finish it for free :( sketches were made for commissioners who don't have a lot of money and artists with not a lot of time but now people are abusing it

"let us have stories that are separated from our traumas" as a black mom of a mixed daughter I feel this sentiment in every part of my soul, we represent more than a collective of generational trauma but heaven help us, you would never know it from the media we exist and have thrived in

AI may not end our world, but it’s taking a big chunk of our freelance work already in creative fields. It’s extremely vexing that of all the ways AI could benefit humanity, the tech bros decided to make it create art, music & writing to steal the voice, style & likeness of human creators. I’m an attorney & designer in a big studio, and it’s very sad for me to see how young artists have lost the will to draw, and my colleagues and I are literally seeing imitations of our work made by AI art bros on Twitter who put our names in their AI prompts

I've been losing my mind seeing so many uninformed takes about AI, and one of the biggest things that people miss is the fact that AI generators don't do anything "on purpose". it's hard not to anthropomorphize it, but it's really just very advanced text prediction (or image prediction, etc. depending on the generator) and it doesn't understand a single thing that it's saying. the word "intelligence" is misleading and vague imo, since the computer doesn't "know" what an apple is. it just knows what humans usually say in response to "what is an apple" based on the text it has ingested from the internet. and god, we really need to correct misinformation about AI functioning like a human brain and other stuff like that. I also feel like we're getting ahead of ourselves in these conversations, like imagining what terrible things AI might do instead of figuring out what to do right now. we should all advocate really hard to pause and focus on things that we could actually change, like limitations on the datasets that train these computers. I get that it's super scary to imagine AI taking jobs and becoming an evil force in the world, but I feel like that broad view is really missing the specific points about what we can do to combat AI misuse. social media companies were allowed to invade our privacy and use our data unchecked for a very long time (and they still are) so knowing that, we should push to impose limitations on that data for both privacy and copyright reasons! I think using data they've scraped without permission is 100% copyright infringement and I'm really hoping for some favorable court decisions that will set the precedent that it's not fair use.

Wait! Let me hop to the bakery, get my pastries and cozy up for this one because it's guaranteed to be great! 😊

AI is dumb I'm super smart already I can boil an egg and peel it and have it come out smooth

I will just carry on with my silly flawed human-made art. What I appreciate about this video is how it makes an honest attempt at both taking the threats seriously AND also questioning if the fear has possibly gone too far. Personally I don't think art or even digital art are dead, what I do believe is that it's going to be another excuse to demand more efficiency for less pay across all the affected industries, even in cases where the new tools may not magically speeding things up by as much as they think.

At this point, I blame the capitalists misdirecting AI more than I do the actual AI. Not to mention the very human-driven devaluation of art as a whole in recent years. This is inevitable and we will it so.

AI has shown us just how quickly people are willing to use new technology to screw creatives over - artists, writers, anyone who requires a salary that could be cut out of the budget by replacing their incredible content with free knock-offs. I don't fear AI. I fear what humans with AI will do, because we have already proven how little we care about harming other humans with this or any other tool at our disposal.

As an artist and a person who works in the tech industry the thing that worries me most about ai is the lack of regulation. Im also worried that it just lies lol and that its not currently being used to do repetitive tasks and is being used to take artists jobs

I am highly concerned about AI under our finance capital system, will be used against people instead of helping(increasing accessibility). We have known for some time how oppressive and insidious white supremacy is and I feel AI upholds this status quo. The status quo of white supremacy (the power system/social structures) and its control mechanism of culturalist, ableism, classism, sexism, racism, xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia. Knowing how much corporations etc hate paying people what they are worth, and a political system that hates oppressed populations, AI is something that should concern us all.

As a newbie of the art community, I hope artists will be done justice. I hope that their creativity as wonderful, complex, human beings, with true experiences and emotions, will be more valued and win over AI. And that applies to anyone who expresses their emotions, and themselves, through any kind of form, and is threatened by being replaced with a robot's souless, empty work. Keep living and growing people❤

They're not afraid of AI, they're afraid of not being able to profit off the exclusivity of AI. Muskrat had that 4 month pause and afterwards announces his own GPT, isn't that funny?

Your video essays are so creative, thought compelling and interesting. Could AI replace what you make, what you make me feel and ponder? No way! AI should be a tool to help, like with editing and such, not be used to replace creators. I live in Japan, and here, the sale of AI generated images was made illegal. You can make those images and post them online, but you cant sell them.

I'm really glad Shan has half a mil followers cuz their vids are some of the most creative and cinematic in the space rn.

*Literally* arguing with an "ai artist" right now actually - That's the thing... You cant say its about artists' rights because they say they are "artsists too". You also can't tell them its unethical because of a lack of consent, because they say they just don't want to "get into the AI debate" or they say posting your art anywhere online is consent... Like... I knew as an artist how bad cultural treatment of artists was... how they would steal our art and erase our signatures and repost things without a tag or link... But now AI takes it to a whole new level. Everyone gets to be an "artist" now if you simply have what it takes to steal.

the topic of ai makes me severely sad but those were absolutely amazing 51 minutes. thank you shanspeare

About the AI question with art, my sister and I have a different opinions. My sister believes that the fact that we can make art with AIs democratises art in a certain way, a field that is basically elitist and to which few have access. So she says "yeah thats great for people and they can enjoy art through their own vision without the need of skills". She also thinks that when artists publish their work, unless it's on a platform that protects the rights of others (not insta or pinterest lol), well that's a risk. Also, she thinks it's up to people who use AI to find out about the provenance of each pieces of work, used to create the AI artwork. As an artist I have a much less positive view of the matter: I understand this approach and agree with it but I can't help but feel bad for the work, time, energy, esteem, and skills that went into certain works or creations that ended up being stolen/used. I know people and how much they don't care: they'll never try to find out how many works were used to get the creation they have in front of them. And just the morals behind it are questionable..I just hope some laws or some measures will be taken to better protect the work of artists.

“Could it rip up your face and eat it? So could chimpanzees and they don’t ban chimpanzees” … well, chimpanzees aren’t allowed to be pets anymore, because exactly that happened… 21:54

Fellas it's that time of the day again Shanspeare released another banger

Ai art has effected my outlook as an artist but I feel like me and my friends will always still have an appreciation for the art that came from my real hand which has so much life behind it

I am someone who does a lot of creative things (mainly writing but I also draw every once in a while). When I first heard of Chat GPT I felt this sense of despair. For me, my writing abilities were my asset and something I spent years of my life building up even if I never intended for it to be. The idea that my skills would no longer be necessary because a computer could do it instead was just painful. I really understand the frustration of many creative people but then I paused and I thought about it. We look at AI so destructively, we ignore its benefits and think of it as something that takes away our livelihoods and our purpose for living even but this is mainly just fear. We're afraid our talents will be obsolete and that they'll no longer matter. On this point I want to disagree. AI won't mean the end of creatives. Just like with the panic about calculators and photographs, in the future these things can co-exist. There will always be more opportunities and as artists I think we should all take a moment to remember why we started in the first place. I don't know if these words will reach anyone but anger and fear won't serve us any purpose. We have to look forward and realise that this advancement is no different from anything else.

I feel that an interesting aspect of this idea of "replacement" is how much it clearly shows how much competition for survival has been structurally integrated at all levels of our society. If I feel like the Beatles or whomever are the best of all times, does that mean that music should stop, that nobody else should ever dare to play anything else, much less make a career out of it? No, of course not. When I play music, it is meaningful and interesting, and therefore "valuable", because I'm the one doing right here and now, regardless of how "good" or "new" it is. Sure, art that manages to be original or insightful is justly felt to be more meaningful, but that isn't a requirement for it to be art. Therefore, even if AI eventually cracked the art code and managed to be the "best" artist ever, why should we feel differently about it than we would for human "best artists"? I make art because I want to, regardless of how much "better" someone else might be at it, human or AI. The idea of replacement is only born from a context that makes art, and work in general, function like a competition for survival, where only some are selected to thrive (often via dubious criteria... Cough cough capitalism cough...) while the others are left not only in a rough spot economically, but also with this insidious brand of "not good enough", as if wanting to participate in art and work could only be meaningful and appropriate when arbitrary standards are met. So I feel that the conversation about AI should also include a conversation about how badly we're currently handling the concept of "worth". I mean, honestly, people genuinely claiming the death of human art because they could make more money out of AI art is such an admission of how little understanding and appreciation of humanity and of its lived experience hypercapitalism has...

We created machines that make art before we made machines that could deliver packages. That's how you know as a species we're fools.

I'm a young artist, for the past year since AI started to get big I completely stopped drawing because of the existential crisis it had me going through. I know now that it's okay for me to draw just for fun, but it's the most crushing feeling in the world to have your lifelong dream of becoming a full-time artist completely crushed in a few weeks' time.

I am really appreciating your work. And I love the Hobi shout out! 💜

can't believe we're headed to Psycho-Pass in real time (i can believe it)

I'm convinced that AI and other robots will have to fight one another to see who is worthy to be the ultimate AI,so I think we as a species will be okay

Frankenstein quote immediately!!!💙💙💙

My stance on AI is ismilar to other artists, I cannot condone a tool that has literally trained on stolen art. It's also annoying to see folks trying to claim they are artists, when they literally just give a AI a prompt. I think the only AI artists are those folks who actually add on to the generated image, and create something new, not someone who literally just threw the prompt hot anime girl with blue hair into a generator and is now claiming they spend hours on their artwork, and drew it themselves. Art is a skill like anything else, and should be learned. And besides with so many free resources available online, and the low cost of good digital tablets in the present, I think learning to draw is much more accessible. I hate that corporations are tying to replace artists with AI and already exploit and underpay them. We know coporporations like to weaponize creators's passion for the arts, and the scarcity of jobs, by basically pressuring them to work 16 hours days to be a good team player and also to secure their jobs. They already treat artists like machines. AI also adopts the biases of their programmers, which is huge problem, because you basically get racist/sexist notions built into AI, when ideally it should be more neutral because it's not a human. Honestly I missed the days when AI was more of a tool, and it focused on things like filters, reproducing classic art which was already in the public domain, or creating useful things for artist like making busts of imaginary humans, or being able to create multiple angles of a photo/or illustration. Those were much more harmless and useful of AI, and didn't step on other artists' toes. I remember these tools were often recommended by artists, and were useful. I know people like that AI has allowed people to make portraits of characters for free, but at the same time, there are so many avatar/portait makers freely available that are made by artists. There's also a lot of templates/bases out there for people to edit and make their own characters. On top of this I know a ton of artists who are just willing to make art for free or very cheaply, if they get excited about a prompt/idea. I'm no programmer, but I did study game design, and do know how to code. Quite frankly I still think all the doom and gloom of AI actually achieving human intelligence to be ridiculous. Computers are stupid. They need very clear instructions, and throw fits over things like capitalization and stray commas. I think about AI in videogames, that often have very limited functions (like being able to follow enemies) and they still mess up, even as complex as AI is. I certainly wouldn''t want AI to drive a car. I doubt we'll ever see the day when AI is able to replicate human speech/decision making without being heavily scripted. The only time I ever thought any chatbots sounded even remotely human like, was because the creators had written a ton of scripts/responses themselves. Often the ilustion is broken only after after a few minutes. I much prefer those silly Personality Forge chatbots, over watching corporations trying to replace coders, cs workers, artistw, and writers with AI.

Not even a minute and all I can think of is the short storyI have no mouth and I must scream; Im excited for a new Shanspeare vid

one of your best videos to date, Shan! the quotes and references you used were very fitting, especially the quote at the end about a culture just stopping and your comments on how the cash driven media industry revolves around a lot of making similar things. I appreciate you and your work so much!! also, the AMC heartbreak feels good bit had be dead lolol wishing ya the best!

The intros are always so good 💗

IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS YESS I LOVE YOUR CONTENT SO MUCH

26:50 damm they hit the nail on the head with that observation

AI takimg over the arts is literally one of the plot lines in Carol & Tuesday

I use Chat GPT almost everyday. I love using it to organize information. I also use it when I draw tarot cards. I like to input my readings and ask for patterns and see if there was anything it thought I overlooked or if it thinks I should expand upon a subject.

Sis uploaded another banger, Love ur vids!

The point about stagnation is such an important one. The current economical system thrives on stagnation. An endless stream of new versions of the same old stuff, sold in a different packaging at a slightly higher price point. Efficiency equals selling more and more with less and less effort.

20 min in and I'm really hoping the fact these ARENT "AI", THEY ARE LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS gets reiterated

I love your videos so much !! always extremely well edited, with such good outfits and such articulate ways in addressing topics

Can we talk about how these techbros LAUGH at creatives when we express worry? It's a horrible thing to say but - I hope they experience the same feeling as us in the near future.

I love this video! Love your input on this already saturated topic, you put a new perspective on it, a more informative and not as nuanced take on the AI talk😊

Great video, Shanspeare! Thank you so much for your effort with your research and stage presence. We appreciate the work you’re doing and best believe, I fully watched the video🥳!

Zayum 💗 I'm blessed today ✨ making zaza oil & here Shanspeare &&&& Kadija go dropping a vid 🌷🌹🌻 thank youuu 💋💞

Omg I listen to your videos while I work as a mail carrier. And I can't believe that Jason Allen popped up.(43:24) I deliver his mail! I also am super annoyed by his attitude especially since his mom is a traditional artist!

I love how visible the pain is when she says elon musk’s name

How in the heck is AI supposed to help with childcare? As someone who works in childcare studying and is working to become a high school teacher I disagree that AI could ever surpass a human in caring for young people. Even down to the fact that an AI could not and would not understand the concept of a 'feel better band-aid' or giving a child a band-aid even when they don't need one because the care and concern from a trusted adult makes them ya know, feel better.

Now don't get me wrong Im here for the perspective as much as the show but chilllee these intros are really startin to be the highlight of my month. They give me life and Im feelin the fantasy 👁️🫦👁️

shanespeare, ima just leave an algo-booster to say your editing has gotten so creative and funny. you make me laugh when i usually just zone out staring at the pretty colors on my rectangle. good day.

Girl this was absolutely top-notch! ☺💜 Amazing writing and delivery! Sharp as a whip! I love your artistic style and humor and ideas.Your look and outfit are also extremely cool I think I want to imitate the jewels above the eyes. So pretty! 🤩 Congratulations on another masterpiece 🙂💜

AI has really done a number on my partner's (an artist) mental state, especially the techbro reactions declaring traditional art dead and AI art the future. Personally, I think its just another vastly overhyped product, a la ChatGPT. Lauded as the downfall of my own career (a historian) I have to admit I was mostly puzzled why people even thought such a program could ever send any academic out of work, let alone a highly multilingual field such as history. I work in 5 modern languages (and 3 dead ones), often need colleagues to do some translations on the ones I do not master because that does not at all cover all the literature. I'm sure that in time such a program could at least master those languages, but access the material, the vast majority of which is undigitized and/or paywalled, and then comprehand all of that as well. And then still crank out a coherent essay that analyses the material and comes up with something new - hilarious. Especially since it can not distinguish facts from truth, and it just so happens to be that almost everything on the internet about history is outdated, incomplete, and/or factually wrong. And thats the majority of its input. Nah, what I am worried about is right-wingers giving us to the giantess because they do not like the way we're telling the story. The 2008 economic crisis already was a great excuse to put the axe into my field of studies, I expect the next to nearly tear it down.

I will never let AI art take my love away from a craft I so lovingly put my everything into. Don't let AI put you down, all types of artist included. Writing, music, fine arts, etc. Keep drawing, remixing, novel writing, and don't let hopelessness drive you away.

goddamn even during your adread i'm laughing. Your editing is great. You're totally evolving and your hard work is paying off. Thank you for your content!

My husband uses Chat all the time. He loves it but I know that there will never be anything like a human being creating, sharing, producing information, art , etc…. I think there will be good and bad and I just hope that we can stand together during the bad. I love you Shan. I am a mess right now because I just found out my father passed away today but I will revisit this video in the future for more insight 🙏🏽❤️‍🔥

Aipocalypse. Apocailypse. Aipocailypse.

Also - another fantastic outfit!!! Especially love the gloves!!!

the fact that i don’t watch any other video essayists because shan has everything

Great video!

As someone with a learning disability AI has helped me communicate in ways that has opened doors for me and my neurospicy community. AI is a tool and all tools can be used as weapons, especially by the system. The lost jobs of "human calculators" that were replaced by computers are not mourned today. People today still have passion for creating new ways to computing, and some of them are turning it into AI. We will not go back to not having AI, regardless if we fear or embrace it, it will only serve us through understanding it and using it with intention.

Thank you for no sludge❤️ I'm a professional potter and when AI art started getting big all of my pals smugly remarked that ceramics were safe from AI. However, ceramics have been made by machines for a long long time and the industry has still survived but is fairly rare and very expensive. I'm curious if this is the future for writers and 2d artists

30:09 that's very true with the non-existent articles thing I tried using to find some details about the movie Iron Man's production over the course of 2007 and 2008 and how it was affected by the writers strike back then. I was trying to see if i could find some articles from then that I wasn't doing all that well finding on my own. it gave me some articles and titles, I tried going to them, they didn't exist. I thought ok, maybe they existed at one point but got deleted due to time or something. so i threw the links in the waybackmachine, and still didn't find anything. Just thought that was kind of weird. that's it, just wanted to back up this point right here with ancedotal experience to attest that this might have some issues.

When you started talking about AI policing you reminded me of a show called "Kung Fu" it's discontinued but the last season was over the same thing. I tell people that TV is just a predictor of the future.

Anyone else a little scared that even AI puts emphasis over marketing to healthcare and education? 23:48

your hobi pop is kinda like my version of those subway surfer videos but I already know this is gonna be a great video

The way I see it, art will be among the first things completely overtook by ai, but art as general is in my opinion supposed to be a source of joy for artists. That said, art will become absolutely private and just a form of self therapy. Think of it as a yoga or meditating. No one will ever care enough to take a look on someone's else's art which is absolutely sad to me but I personally think that's likely to happen.

This video is such a good compliment to Sophie from Mars. Yours speaks to the art and social threats, while Sophie's speaks to the ideology behind it. Thank you for expanding my knowledge.

it sounds like "superintelligence" by Nick bostrom would be in line with the research you've done. a cautionary book about the potential dangers we may face when superceded by an artificial superintelligence

Your perspective is refreshing.

$4?! my heart dropped when i heard that! things need to change asap when you said that ai can’t create an emotional response from the reader is so true. i read this book (….fine! it was a fanfic!) and whenever i smell flowers it reminds me of that story and the beautiful memories from reading it. ai can’t do that.

Shanes, I love you more than I'd imagined I'd love a youtuber. Thanks for merely existing. More thanks fot choosing us.

Awesome vids, subbed from Down Under.

When you said no slime videos or subway surfers, I got up to get the tape for my eyes to stay open ✊🏾

Goodness, I've needed this. I've just stated focusing on sculpture cos it is harder to steal.

Lovvvvvvveeee your work!!!

Shanspeare back with another amazingly well done video 👏💗

"No money, no bitches, no computers to test" my man Turing was down tremendously and detrimentally 😢

So informed and funny. Love

great work

Another great video! ❤

Early engagement for the engagement god!

shan: when you watch these videos without doing research afterwards me: *who doesn’t research afterwards* 😮

ai art makes me concerned for how i as a artist online might get harassed or get my artwork stolen not only ai art but deep fakes and such its so easily to fake things that can ruin someones life (i do enjoy some ai like character ai etc)

earlllyyyy for queeennnn

I'm in the very narrow minority of artists who actually enjoy AI and use it to find inspiration and improve on my own art. Ages ago I was told my work was not real art because it's digital, now all digital artists are considered the true artists fighting against AI. The gates are always moving forward. Also, is a 19 year-old a child in your country? Don't get me wrong, deep fakes are evil no matter what age, but I got curious.

brilliant video!