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If you really understand what your tools do (not how tools do it), you are a true professional (in this case, an artist). You use some tools to achieve a certain effect and you know what it will be like. AI "artists" don't know what AI will do for them in the next moment. At least something like that.
And the best they could come up with was anthro shit?
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"Art"
5000 years later:
"And here we see a fertility figure, commonly worshipped in the late Microplastic era".
"And this one is the goddess of youthfulness in adults. According to remaining Tweets, while she looks like she's a 10 year old, she's actually a 9000 year old dragon, who chooses to have this form, and is actually able to give consent to sexual encounters, and is so promisculous she needs frequent corrections. This cult seems to be widely persecuted according to other tweets, in the form of what they called as "cancel culture", since many outsiders thought it would encourage the harm of actual children, and some participants of this cult unfortunately had such occurences."
This rocks
It's the one rock actually
"Nothing will stop real artists from making art."
I think this is kinda an empty sentiment. Nobody is trying to stop artists from making art. They're just trying to stop paying a lot of them for their art.
They didn’t claim anyone was trying to stop them from making art. In the context of the rest of the post, that is about how a lack of a specific tool or software won’t stop artists from creating art.
You’re spot on about them trying to stop paying people for art, though.
I'm a digital chef, I prompt the dish I want into doordash and it shows up in my home in 45 minutes.
Hey, you forgot to say "using AI"
By coincidence, a friend just posted this elsewhere:
This is the equivalent of "you should learn to do all types of complex math shit in your head because you won't always have a calculator with you". Except you can now whip out your phone.
Imagine trying to convince someone to spend 5 years of their life learning to paint, instead of just waiting for technology to improve. It's a bit like encouraging people to take apprenticeships in chimney sweeping or lessons on how to be a royal jester. Do what makes you happy, sure - but be prepared to do it as a hobby not as a job. Especially if the machines can outbid you.
Some jobs become obsolete as time passes. If artists are next to be this century's town criers, that's okay. We'll all become obsolete sooner or later.
Imagine trying to convince someone to spend 5 years of their life learning to paint, instead of just waiting for technology to improve.
You mean like they had to do for virtually all of human history? I can imagine it quite well.
If artists are next to be this century’s town criers, that’s okay.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. As if art was meaningless to humanity.
I suppose you would have an AI paint over the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
For virtually all of human history people brought their laundry to the riverside and beat it on rocks. This weird puritanism that "only humans should be allowed to draw pictures" is ridiculous.
If an artist can create something hand-made and unique then they'll be able to continue doing so. Same for people who make art for the love of making art, no one's going to stop them. But that 90% of "artists" who create corporate logos or generic furry porn may disappear, I'm not going to shed a tear.
That is in no way the same thing and I said nothing about being allowed to do anything.
If you do not look at a painting like A Starry Night and feel the human connection between you and Van Gogh's awe at the night sky or look at the painting in the cave in Lascaux and understand that you are looking through the eyes of someone who lived thousands of years ago, I don't know what to say. I feel sorry for you, I guess.
There is no connection like that with AI-generated art because there is no human or emotion or even eyes involved. It's not the same and it never will be the same unless AI become as aware and able to understand the universe as we are. I won't be holding my breath.
Over it? No. I'm not in the habit of destroying works of art. But if in a few hundred years it needs to be restored, I'd prefer an AI does it instead of a human.
Is your stance that art can only be done by humans?
No, my stance is that you are trivializing art and its significance and its connection to our humanity.
Ah, okay.
Being good at prompting AI to generate art is like being good at using a search engine to find a specific picture.
~~Search engine~~ AI artists!
It's a lot like commissioning something from an artist. You have to describe what you want, with the style, details and mood you want to see, then maybe go back and forth a few times until it's just right. Doing that well is a skill, so are things like art direction. But replacing the humans executing on the direction with a machine doesn't suddenly make the directing human an artist.