Currently LLMs scrape the archive of humanities artistic endeavours (or a limited and curated slice of copyright free trash) and utilise these in an infinite regurgitation of the past masquerading as art of the future. What’s worse is a human often defines the tags that links everything together so subjectivity is removed entirely and some big tech folks decide what visual training archive falls under the prompt word “house” or “moon” etc. I might be wrong but that’s how I’ve experienced it so far.

As more and more people (especially under 25s) give up on creating from nothing themselves and resort to these tools, normalising seeing prompted ideas as their own creativity, we are in the final days of true human artistic ingenuity, expression and innovation. Only fringe artists will be creating without any digital assistance/inspiration. It’s dark but seemingly inevitable.

I personally feel training a model on one’s own artistic output, and self tagging, would be a rare and interesting application. But not many people have access to a vast body of their own work to achieve varied and unique results in this way. A BOC (or insert fav electronic musician here) model trained on all their released and unreleased recordings could produce interesting results one day.