The marriage between art and commerce is a charming relationship. The patron and the artist communicates mostly with friendly banter here and there, a guidance that leads to investment. A tale as old as time. What happens when a third party enters this sanctimonious partnership, say of the artificial intelligence variety?

Albert Einstein famously said, “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” I can’t wait to hear an AI come up with its first really good knock-knock joke.

There is an insanity to being creative. It is the fiber, the root of all the ideas, visions, fiction and non-fiction, shapes and colors come out of. It is from the emotion of that creative person that becomes the work.

So where does AI’s creative hunger stem from? Is it born from a thousand clicks on a keyboard and algorithms from countless data?

Will the artist, the human artist have to take a back seat to financial gains and client budgets?

There are claims that AI can enhance the creative process. In this blog article from New York University, it presumes the ways in which it can be used for good in various creative works. “For visual artists, AI-generated images can serve as starting points for new creations. AI algorithms can create abstract patterns, morph images, or generate unique compositions that artists can incorporate into their work.” In music composition AI can analyze past and current music to generate new, fresh sounds and genres even. For writers and poets, AI’s capabilities for vocabulary, generating sentences (sans grammatical errors) and long form paragraphs can apparently be beneficial for crafting storylines, character and dialogues. Yet as we experienced and witnessed in the Writers Union Strike of 2023, AI could play as the downfall for all things creative writing and screenwriting in terms of lack of jobs.

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The only valid question remains, is AI going to take over my job?