• Lime66@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That’s fine, but ai “artists” act like their prompts(and even the images they didn’t do shit to make) are things they put their heart and soul into and get so mad that they have any people calling them out

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      3 months ago

      Personally I haven’t seen any of that, just a lot of people butthurt (or scared for their livelyhood) that others can now make pictures with little effort.

      Also some of these generated pics are the result of hundreds of trial-and-error attempts changing up the dozens of parameters and running multiple pieces of software in sequence to get the AI to spit out the wanted result.

      The “Anti-AI” crowd tends to be completely ignorant on how this stuff actually works.

      And some people have turned this AI stuff into their hobby, so they get defensive when you shit on them (“calling them out” as you word it)

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        It’s fine to have AI stuff as a hobby but I’m sorry; AI generated art has no business in an art gallery with human art.

        Rent/host your own spaces, open your own galleries, hold your own events. No one is saying that people can’t engage with AI art. What they’re saying is that the effort to legitimize AI art as an equal to human art is incredibly damaging and cancerous.

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      3 months ago

      It’s like asking someone to make you a sandwich and then stipulating what you want on the sandwich then, once the sandwich is on a plate in front of you, you proudly exclaim “Wow, I’m quite the chef, aren’t I?”

      The sandwich maker in this case is just not a person, it’s a computer.

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        Looking at it a different way, that would be like a photographer taking a photo of the sandwich and proclaiming “I’m an artist” or a director telling a chef what to make, telling a cinematographer/camera operator how to shoot it, and an editor how to cut it to create a short film of a sandwich and proclaiming “I’m an artist”. Art can be made from a series of creative and purposeful decisions that result in a piece of expression. It might not be good art, it might not be effortful art, it might even be unethically made art, but it’s not not-art.

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        3 months ago

        I compare it to commissioning a piece and then bragging about how much effort you put into it. But that’s also a really good analogy

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      3 months ago

      The parallels to film directing are uncanny. Idk why people consider that an art either. Not sarcasm, film directing isn’t art for the exact same reason AI images aren’t art.

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        3 months ago

        That would also make a corporate exec meddling with the production to meet their expectations as artists…

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          Yup. That’s why I’m skeptical of directors are artists.

          Or, more accurately, I don’t think you can get a clear black and white answer about if someone is an artist or something is art.
          It’s probably more like a grey area, a sliding scale.

          I think we’re looking at this question wrong anyways. Anything can be art, this is just a tool and in the hands of an artist it will contribute to the creation of art.
          The question is: is this a net benefit for society? Is it helping new/hidden artists create art that they otherwise couldn’t? Or is it making the life of the artist harder by fucking up the job market? Both?

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        3 months ago

        “This artform that I don’t have a hope in hell of ever understanding is invalid… because I say so.”

        Better stop watching movies and tv and only ever go to your local playhouse for entertainment.