Dec. 19, 2025 9:28 AM PT
To the editor: There isn’t a denying that know-how has at all times superior the method of making artwork and design (“Technology has expanded creativity for centuries. What makes AI different?,” Dec. 18). It’s been an intrinsic facet of creative developments from the beginnings of humanity. The digicam alone democratized image-making in order that anybody could possibly be an artist, in a position to stage dramatic storytelling inside our on a regular basis actuality.
AI is totally totally different on this distinctive second in our societal evolution. Already, there have been widespread job reductions on account of AI, threatening complete sectors of the inventive workforce.
In colleges, second graders now have AI image generators that eradicate the necessity to attract an image. Throughout schooling, college students will start to depend on it for every little thing, from brainstorming and envisioning to writing, designing, multimedia manufacturing and enhancing.
Because of the proliferation and energy of social media, audiences are shedding any sense of worth of the artistry the creator describes. In consequence, these human creative capabilities might diminish or disappear from our society altogether.
To retain them will take deliberate, sturdy and ongoing assist for arts schooling in colleges, together with media arts. In keeping with knowledge from Create CA, 89% of colleges are violating California schooling code in not providing arts instruction, and less than 2% of scholars have entry to media arts and literacy. That should change.
Dain Olsen, Los Angeles
This author is president and CEO of the Nationwide Assn. for Media Arts Schooling.
