Comment by micromacrofoot
6 months ago
It's not that deep, if someone thinks it's AI it loses value to them. If you're able to utilize AI tools in a way that doesn't make the output look like AI to the average person you'll be fine.
Eventually no one will be able to really tell the difference and all of this will go away (though likely at the expense of more people's livelihoods).
I see that as being partially true. There will be people like Walter Keane that take the art of others and state it is their own work. [0] AI will assist those individuals.
AI will have a home on people's desktops for those that accept it.
Art that has value will not be AI art. Artist like Margaret Keane will continue to be viewed as exceptional along with their works. [1]
Personally, I view AI art as lacking passion and an attempt to short circuit the path to profit / greed. I wish to not fund that circuit.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Keane
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Keane
A lot of prolific artists historically have passed their own work off to apprentices (for hundreds of years), and there's probably not much different here.
This frees the lead artist up for more conceptual work. AI can potentially carry on this tradition, and at less of an expense.
The truth of many great artists is that they needed to produce a lot more work than they'd have liked to make a living for themselves.
And as I learn about such individuals taking credit for others work I have nothing but disgust for them. This statement also binds to STEM.
Ivan Pavlov's assistants realized the dogs were salivating. Ronald Hare figured out how to mass produce penicillin and saved thousands of lives but no Nobel recognition for her triumph were those that got the prize failed. [0]
I personal will never fund AI art / AI artist. There is no personality in such works, only slop. Profits help artist is not why the create the art they do and if so, they lack soul in their works.
[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/penci...
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Well I think we're just describing taste and craft. AI tools will get better, more granular, and become better integrated into the actual workflows of people over time. A good tool shouldn't take over my sense for taste and craft.
It's a good thing people are pushing back against the slop if we want there to be any incentives for AI tools to not be geared towards helping make slop.