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Generative art allows more people to communicate with others in ways they couldn't before, and to inspire and be inspired by others. The stuff people post online still requires creativity, curiosity, experimentation, and refinement. It also requires learning how to use new skills they may not have had to effectively use new tools that are rapidly evolving and improving to express themselves. Generative art is not a passive process, but an active one, where human artists get a chance to create something unique and meaningful.
Think of it like a camera that that can navigate the multidimensional latent space filled with concepts that can give rise to novel digital art. In the real world you can up, down, left, right, in or out, but in a latent space not only can you go those places, you can go to where Muppets meets impasto. Like a camera, sometimes none of the things you capture are made by you, but you still choose how it's captured and presented.
You have a lot in common with Charles Baudelaire, even though you're a hundred years apart from eachother.
I believe that generative art, warts and all, is a vital new form of art that is shaking things up, challenging preconceptions, and getting people angry - just like art should. Generative art introduces new ways to fail that no one is ready for, so if you see someone post some malformed monstrosity somewhere, cut them some slack, they're just learning. Remember there's another person on the other end of the internet that was excited to share with you.
I hope you're doing well. It's cool you were able to better communicate that way.
These are definitely a mood. What was the idea behind the ones with people in cars, if you don't mind me asking?
Your comment definitely made me think, and I appreciate that, but at the risk of displaying ignorance, but in hopes of learning, I have to ask: doesn't creating A.I. art just involved pressing "start" (effectively) on the human's part?
If so, then the only one actually "doing art" would be the A.I., and since the A.I. is not self-aware, it's not actually an artist, just software gears-in-a-box pumping out a thing.
I fully recognize what all I just said may be misconceptions, but that's why I intentionally said it. If it's wrong, I can learn; if it's right, you can learn. No insult intended here.
It's kind of a spectrum depending on what tool you're using and your level of commitment. I know with web based interfaces wit can be slow and cumbersome to iterate, but with open source models based on Stable Diffusion you get a lot of freedom. That's mostly what I base my knowledge off.
Here are some videos of what I mean:
https://youtu.be/-JQDtzSaAuA?t=97
https://youtu.be/1d_jns4W1cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtbEuERXSqk
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/-JQDtzSaAuA?t=97
https://piped.video/1d_jns4W1cM
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
I'll gladly consider it proper art if the human actually uses genuine creativity in creating it. I'm not some troglodyte. So I appreciate you giving me information!
I'll check out those videos. Thanks. :)
It's kinda like selfies and cameras. Not all photos taken with cameras are art, but you can make art with cameras.