Comment by oblio
1 day ago
The thing is... Elbow grease makes the difference.
If you're just generating images using AI, you only get 80% there. You need at least to be able to touch up those images to get something outstanding.
Plus, is getting 1 billion bytes of randomness/entropy from your 1 thousand bytes of text input really <your> work?
Pollock can get uncountable bytes of entropy from a skilful swing of a bucket.
Most art isn't like that. I would argue most people dislike that kind of art.
I understand not liking Pollock, and he’s often the butt of “my kid could do that”. But do you really think most people dislike it?
In person they are compelling, and there is more skill at play than at first glance. I like them at least
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It is apposite that in a lot of modern art, the concept and provenance are valued more than the execution.
Plus, is getting 1 billion bytes of randomness/entropy from your 1 thousand bytes of text input really <your> work?
I think what AI has made and will make many more people realise is that everything is a derivative work. You still had to prompt the AI with your idea, to get it to assemble the result from the countless others' works it was trained on (and perhaps in the future, "your" work will then be used by others, via the AI, to create "their" work.)
For now. Eventually it will get you 100% of the way there and we'll have the tooling for it as well.