If I could paint or draw, I would. The talent and ability to paint or draw are the most liberated and personal modes of visual storytelling. But I can’t.
So, instead, I found, like many others, photography. With photography, the starting point is the reality before the creator’s eye; the choice of angle, perspective, mode, and color becomes the “paints” on your palette.
Moving pictures and video elevate visual storytelling to an even higher plane. The miracle of motion and sound reinforces the fantasy of reality and magnifies the power of the story told.
With each innovation, new means and methods of visual storytelling have raised the power of storytelling to a new “place.” Now, the advent of AI and the tools it will bring will take the storyteller’s power to yet another level. But, even with its potential, AI comes with a significant impediment: humans and their fear of change and obsolescence.
Like all new tools and innovations, it will not be the feelings of any hurt individual or group of individuals that will determine the path of innovation. Instead, the power and the will to create welled up in so many would-be artists will break through the fear, reluctance, and jealousy of those who hope to staunch the forward movement of this new storytelling medium. And, of course, profits for those who pursue them will also bring each permutation of the new tools that storytellers embrace.
So this is just a fair warning to those who are offended by the “dehumanization of art” or whatever other Luddite argument is made: AI is coming, AI will transform the art of storytelling, and the fear of change can not stop it.
