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The artistic implications aside, my problem with AI is entirely aesthetic, really. AI “art” is terrible, I wouldn’t even consider it art, really, there’s no process, no intention besides inputs and outputs. Most AI art seems to be really dull and related to weird fixations, while I’m lucky to be in a field that AI can’t replicate (which can at times feel written by a machine), I’m immensely annoyed by it and will be as it likely becomes more prevalent to avoid paying artists

@joepeters

Mar 24, 2024

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@ghostgirl

Definitely. I agree AI “art” doesn’t feel like it deserves to be called such. I say that not just because the public technology currently lacks a certain skill, but because art is often assigned meaning by the intention in which the artist created a piece. AI generated works inherently lack intention. AI does, however, spark a public assessment of art and its value, especially in relation to the artist, which I think is an important discussion to have. Though, these conversations do seem to fall upon deaf corporations. I think issues with AI lean more towards economic than strictly philosophical. I think if we weren’t living in a capitalistic society we would be able to integrate more freely with it while also valuing artists. The way in which AI art is implemented seems solely for monetary benefit of a corporation and in some cases, the individual. That went off on a bit of a tangent, hopefully it is still relevant to your comment. I appreciate your insight as an artist.

Mar 24, 2024

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A.I. ART CAN’T TRANSCEND ANYTHING

Ok so forget about the environmental issues (if you say other art forms do damage as well?), forget about the stealing from other artists (it’s true a lot of great art involves theft), forget about it being impersonal (a lot of good art is), forget about what is and isn’t art— here’s why I think maybe you shouldn’t bother with ai image generation:
You’re unlikely to learn or create anything new, you’re just rearranging the internet’s entrails. Making more chaff that’s dead on arrival and fed back into the AI meat grinder, to be torn apart and reassembled by someone else.
Nick Cave has a quote about art being great because we create it by pushing against our limitations, failing in ways and overcoming in others. AI is theoretically limitless, and so there is nothing to push against or transcend.
Conceiving of some combination of images and making it happen is not a very interesting way of making art to begin with (whether you use AI or do it manually). You won’t discover anything in this creation, it’s just pure execution. Art is informed by its process, the creation of it is intrinsic to the thing itself. You have no medium, no physical or conceptual substance to push against— just someone else’s algorithm. At best you are a curator of images, or an illustrator whose products have little utility. Really just a cog in someone else’s increasingly run-of-the-mill machine, making content indistinguishable from the next guy and training an algorithm to make the world a worse place. Can you use AI as an ingredient in a more complex project? Maybe. But you’ll make better, more interesting art without it. Just because something feels inevitable doesn’t mean it’s not a choice

@slowdazzle

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A.i. for art is whatever

I’m sure in the right hands ai can be used to create stunning art. True, that art will somewhere deep down be based on other works used to train the ai, but right now I don’t think I care. People can use any tools they like to express themselves.
Every medium is used to create bad art and to create good art. Most things people make with generative ai will be bad. But those people just as easily could be taking bad photos, painting bad paintings, carving bad marble statues or anything else.
AI is going to make all kinds of things worse for everyone (unless it just flames out - read Ed Zitron about that), but creative art is the least of it.

@bee1000

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Saw this the other day, kinda sums up my views on ai in any artistic capacity

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