I don't consider it art either but not hating it since it offers you a different view on realism while trying to be realism. With silly results like pouring a mug of hot coffee out of the fingers ๐ค, or carrying a shield backwards.
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In my understanding, art is made of
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creativity
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craftsmanship
If one of them is lacking, then the outcome is either just a copy, or even a bad copy.
Current AI is lacking both.
So whenever anyone calls generated pictures "art", then you know something about that one.
Current AI is lacking both.
Only word wrong here is 'current'. AI will never have creativity or craftmanship. It's impossible.
I'm going to take a wide definition of the word 'art' here and apply it to all artistic methods.
Its not art. Art, almost by definition, partly reflects an emotional state the artist was in when creating the work. AI merely apes the output, not the necessary emotional connection. Its like the shitty music that used to play in lifts (elevators) in that it uses the output but is utterly soulless.
Its ethically way worse than piracy. If you pirate (for example) an ebook or music its more than likely because you want to escape DRM or some other type of controlling software designed to prevent you from actually having control over what you would otherwise have bought. LLM's steal not just that but the whole creative process. Its more than pirating a movie or track or book, its more akin to stealing the thought process from an artists mind and trying to replicate the process automatically.
It is, to me, just another example of making the whole of our international artistic culture a bland homogenized cesspit of crapness. Its capitalism's best way to profit from art as there's no one to pay. But we end of with ever decreasing quality. AI based art becomes like humanity in the matrix - used then liquidised to feed the next iteration.
And then there's also the environmental impact. The last thing the word needs right now is something else gobbling resources - especially when the end result is utter shit.
AI is just a fun toy. It can't make "art." There are CEOs out there fucking thirsty at the idea of a 59% unemployment rate because everyone else is cut out of their business, but AI can't do the job and they will learn that the hard way after fucking over a bunch of people.
Even the success stories seem skeptical. I use AI all the time at work to assist with coding, and beyond that I use it all the time for funโmy job is safe because AI is fucking awful at it.
So anyway I don't hate it per se, but I don't like it other than jokey shit. But I don't want to see it everywhere, either.
It is scary the amount of people in this thread that actually think art is defined by how it is made, and not the emotions and thoughts it elicits.
There's nothing interesting about it. It's a waste of storage space and computational power. It makes the world worse
No problem with AI generated art itself. Mostly an issue with "AI artists"
Yes. It can only exist through stealing the creative work of others.
Also, it looks terrible.