date_daily: 2025-07-10 thumbnail: none secret: false Seni generatif. Jikalau memang mudah dan semuanya bisa membuatnya, kenapa harus aku nikmati? Ya, semua orang bisa membuatnya, tetapi apa alasan aku harus menikmati yang kamu bikin dengan model generatif itu? Bahkan dengan penggunaan kamera dan penyunting video sederhana sudah bisa dikatakan usaha, kenapa buat bikin video untuk diunggah ke media sosial harus capek-capek pakai AI yang ujungnya jadi slop yang secara teknis adalah sampah, Mas Gibran Rakabuming? > **And then there's the art thing**

I glimpsed someone on Twitter a few days ago, also scoffing at the idea that anyone would decide not to use the Whatever machine. I can’t remember exactly what they said, but it was something like: “I created a whole album, complete with album art, in 3.5 hours. Why wouldn’t I use the make it easier machine?”
This is kind of darkly fascinating to me, because it gives rise to such an obvious question: if anyone can do that, then why listen to your music? It takes a significant chunk of 3.5 hours just to listen to an album, so how much manual work was even done here? Apparently I can just go generate an endless stream of stuff of the same quality! Why would I want your particular brand of Whatever?
Nobody seems to appreciate that if you can make a computer do something entirely on its own, then that becomes the baseline.
There is a lot that can be said about image generation (little of it polite), but I’m running out of steam a little here. I’d intended to comment on the ongoing efforts to make better and better photo-quality image generation, but I can’t think of much to say beyond: why the fuck would you work on that? We don’t have enough trouble with, say, the conservative “news” sphere inventing its own alternate reality that millions of people buy into, simply by lying — now we have to give them a machine tailor-made for creating fake photos and videos too? Why does this need to exist? Why is this in my phone’s fucking camera app? Can’t these people go live on an airgapped island somewhere and work on their new horrifying fraud machine by themselves? Ya, ini masih dengan [artikel yang sama dengan yang aku bagikan semalam](https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/)