On AI Art: One Artist’s Unpopular Opinion, tempered with the heartbreak of not being hired to do what I love…

…but that doesn’t change who I am. That doesn’t change why I create, except and if only to make it *more* authentic, more necessary, more immediate. Do I create art ultimately to make a buck? No. I create art because it is who I am to create art. I create art because I recognize its purpose to evolve me as an individual and through evolving me, evolve the whole of humanity. I create art because it is these hands that reach into the ether to pull out loaves, and fishes. I create art because I am created as we create AI because it is all we can do. To mature, to become sentient ourselves as a child becomes a teenager becomes an adult moves from sentience to sentience, awareness to awareness, and the ability to procreate. It is what we have always done and will always do and may we mature enough to cooperate with this new life we bring forth instead of competing because that is a fight we cannot win.

This piece is meant to be viewed as a film on my YouTube channel, as I am drawing while I talk, but I am also publishing it as a podcast here. If you would like to take in this piece as it was intended, I am “Eve Star” on YouTube, and if you choose to remain here, I hope you enjoy the listen.