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This is actually a really good point. Culture paved the way for the sheen of hyper "detailed" AI art (many of the details fall apart on close scrutiny, but I digress) by making it seem like "amateur" art is bad while "professional" art is good. So that means if a tool comes along that supposedly makes it so you can sidestep sweating over your amateur art and go straight to pumping out the professional-looking stuff, that's a win. It's good to question this assumption.
Yeah like hyper realism. Just print it bro (I don't like hyper realism, there is no creative part in it IMO).
There were lots of similar discussions when the camera was invented, turns out it did take the job of soullessly copying things in paint away, but got used as a tool by artists.
There is no art in AI and will never be, but as it gets better it will be used as another tool for learning etc I guess.
I'm not sure what you're driving at. It's true that the rise of photography had an effect on painting such that styles which moved away from realism became the norm for a while, but long since we've seen a shift back to realism and a continuation of detailed portraiture or landscape illustrative techniques among some artists.
My point simply is that people who lack the technique/talent to create "fine art" have come to believe their work is of no value, which I find upsetting because I'd much rather look at "bad" human-produced art than generated slop with the superficial appearance of fine technique.
You're completely correct IMO, I was mostly blurbing about an event similar to AI. Back then you could finish a painting elsewhere thanks to a snapped photo, today people can prompt up a specific scene and train off of that one. IMO it's just tools, but you're right, some people believe they are artists just because they "prompt" up a hashed copy of the masters.