Comment by galkk
15 hours ago
This is the same level of arguing that only painting is the real art and photography is just clicking the button
15 hours ago
This is the same level of arguing that only painting is the real art and photography is just clicking the button
AI prompting can be an art form when someone makes something actually capable of evoking emotion from me. So far I have seen exactly 0 good pieces of serious media created with prompts.
The only reaction I have to prompts is "wow, its impressive that humans created a machine that can mimic art".
It isn’t. Photographers take the time to seek out things they want to photograph, decide how to compose the shot, maybe pick a subject and have them pose certain ways. Choose their lighting and color grading. That is their essence.
To play devil's advocate: couldn't people generating AI image/video take the time to consider what they want to generate, decide how to prompt it, ask for edits to have subjects pose certain ways, and specify lighting and color grading (or tweak it afterwards with the same tools digital photographers use)? Wouldn't that give them an 'essence' in the same way?
Some of the post generation editing, for sure. For the rest of it in my opinion, they're not actually physically doing any of it. There's no friction. Friction is usually viewed as a negative thing but in the arts the constraints that we have are what make it more interesting. You don't get that accidental abberation in the shot (okay maybe you do if you count an extra finger ;). You don't get to talk back and forth with your subject about different poses or backgrounds.
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