"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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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.
5000 years later:
"And here we see a fertility figure, commonly worshipped in the late Microplastic era".
Late microplastic era?
Once our society collapses we will produce way less plastic.
"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."
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"
If you aren't using more water to process the transaction then you are to grow the food, then can you even call yourself a modern food delivery company?
"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.
This rocks
It's the one rock actually
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.
