There is somewhat famous digital artist from Russia - Alexey Andreev. Google it, he has very distinctive style of realistic technique and surrealistic situations, like landing big manta ray on the deck of aircraft carrier. Or you can see his old works in his 5-years-not-updates LJ [1].
Now he uses generative AI as one of his tools. As Photoshop, as different (unrealistic!) brushes in Photoshop, as other digital tools. His style is still 100% recognizable and his works don't become worse or more "generic". Is he still artist? I think so.
Can you share some of the art you’ve made with generative AI?
Cool, who are you?
People who use generative AI in their processes are not artists.
And people who use Photoshop are?
There is somewhat famous digital artist from Russia - Alexey Andreev. Google it, he has very distinctive style of realistic technique and surrealistic situations, like landing big manta ray on the deck of aircraft carrier. Or you can see his old works in his 5-years-not-updates LJ [1].
Now he uses generative AI as one of his tools. As Photoshop, as different (unrealistic!) brushes in Photoshop, as other digital tools. His style is still 100% recognizable and his works don't become worse or more "generic". Is he still artist? I think so.
Where will you draw the line?
[1] - https://alexandreev.livejournal.com/
For every Alexey Andreev there are about 248518 blogs with "AI" generated illustrations that you just scroll past without noticing :)
I don’t think this is quite right. I think paraphrasing The Incredibles has a better take:
When everybody is an artist, then nobody will be one.
I use generative AI to rubber duck and help improve my code.
Am I no longer a software engineer?
This is true. They are just taking a sample from a generated latent space, just like taking a photo of something doesn't make you an artist.
So, there is no artists in, for example, street photography? Picture must be altered to become art, or staged?
Was it irony? :)
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