Comment by anonylizard
3 years ago
In case you don't know, AI art is not an AI pumping out art by itself. A human prompter has to prompt the AI. The prompter can perfectly understand 'police brutality'/'shelled hometown', as they are human, just like the artist.
Artists feel threatened, because they invested 90% of their time in drawing skills, which went from unthinkable to automate, to AI surpassing 90% of artists in 8 months.
> they invested 90% of their time in drawing skills, which went from unthinkable to automate,
Except that the AI doesn't automate drawing, it automates the creation of an image of a drawing.
I have a friend who is an amateur water colour painter. I have no doubt that an AI/ML application can produce pictures that look very much like pictures of his pictures. But at the moment at least it is utterly unable to create the actual artwork.