"Many artists who oppose gAI want to maintain an artist/creative class"
Ah yes one of the classes Marx wrote about, proletariat, bourgeoisie, artist.
My brother in christ PICK UP A FUCKING PENCIL
Ah yes one of the classes Marx wrote about, proletariat, bourgeoisie, artist.
DPRK is a removedd worker's state - just look at the symbology:
. The ARTISTS (depicted by the brush tool from MS Paint) are above all!Edit: the auto-filter removed a Trotskyist term. That's a sectarianism!
Edit: the auto-filter removed a Trotskyist term. That's a sectarianism!
Yeah, it's a calligraphy pen. I'm just doing a stupid bit.
the only stupid thing here is my brain failing to see its a bit
Trotsky has sent in a cringe word. We shall neither print it, nor reply.
I wanted to become an artist but the goons of the creative class came to my house and confiscated all my drawing supplies.
The artists have been hoarding the products of their labor for far too long, finally we can democratize their work
Petty bourgeois extract labor value from others, small-scale artisans are generally not petty bourgeois unless they have assistants or something.
not necessarily, the petite bourgeoisie also include those who own and work their own means of production, which would include self-employed artisans.
Not so, if you own and work your own means of production but don't profit from others' labor value, you're just a yeoman by another name
Highly doubt most of the people drawing furry porn for rich guys these days are living a luxury lifestyle of eating caviar and having sex with models in Manhattan or shaking hands with MBS over oil deals
don't need to be wealthy, it's about your relationship to the means of production. Petite bourgeoisie just own and work their own means of production. Small business owners can't afford that lavish shit either
This is a disingenous take because the vast majority of artists in the world are likely proletarian. Consider anime artists, do you really think people who are employed by a specific studio and have to do hours a day of back-breaking labor are really... petite bourgoisie? They do not employ themselves, and do not have access to their own means of production.
My real point is that if you don't even know what classes Marx described, you shouldn't try doing Marxist class analysis until you read some theory. No investigation no right to speak and all that.
But I have clearly… Read the theory. Nothing I have said was incorrect
Do they not realize that the biggest gatekeepers of creativity is Adobe and any apps like them? Quite literally in their perfect world, only the rich get the luxury of having art as a career, and your boss will overwork you well into the weekend so you will never have the time to do art if the cost doesn't stop you.
Irony being adobe directly implementing gen ai into their software to undercut their very own userbase.
Man, and I was only joking when I thought that Adobe saw art as a luxury for the rich. Now they're directly implementing porky-friendly features into their growing enshittified apps.
We benefit from having actual humans digest the experience of being alive to express it back to us. We benefit from a dialog where artists shape and are shaped by their cultural moment. Human art is group therapy. If we cut that loop and replace it with an algorithm that remixes and regurgitates past art, I think we lose something important, we lose part of the feedback loop of how societies understand themselves and evolve.
This is what happens when your cultures acts like STEM and the people who study it are the pinnacles of humanity and humanities are for dum-dums who can't science.
If they had their way it would be BEet (Business, Economics, engineering and technology in lower case). We've seen how they treat science, especially when it comes to conclusions that popularly held beliefs about the world are actually wrong.
This would be better dunking material if people on hexbear didn't call you an ableist and classist for not supporting AI companies.
Some people can't just have a normal opinion without attaching some guilt factor in case you disagree. That hexbear "discourse" is just a really childish way to say "I want my AI art and the haters make me angry" with added pretension to make it sound like an important social issue. Internet brain poisoning and thinking you need to hold a Platform all the time will do that.
Honestly the question of the motor disability was way more interesting to me,
Then why didn't you ask about it? You were the one who was hung up on the athanasia and you are still being ablist about it.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. Conceptually, I think it was the more interesting problem, but I don't think it would be worth discussing with you because you didn't want to discuss things from that angle and there's no sense in pressing the matter.
Insofar as I was hung up on the other aspect, I think it was me be careful about what I knew I could claim because I am not, in fact, ableist.
Conceptually, I think it was the more interesting problem, but I don't think it would be worth discussing with you because you didn't want to discuss things from that angle and there's no sense in pressing the matter.
Gaslight me more crybully. Tell me how my neurodiversity is both
not disabled enough for you
I'm pessimistic about the realistic viability of painting if you're, like, born blind, but Christ, dude, come on.
but how parts of it might be "conceptualy interesting" but not to actually discuss with someone with lived experience.
Obviously this is one of those "disagreeing with me is gaslightinging" things, but I don't get where the "crybully" thing came from. I'm not a victim of shit, I think your dismissiveness is unfortunate, but I'm not crying over it.
That said, I should have been more careful in my wording, because I was meaning to contrast "painting while blind" with "bodies having widths while you can't mentally picture them". I will repeat that you seem to not understand how NT people draw, which is unfortunate for how it makes the question of how you can succeed in drawing much harder to conceptualize.
Remember that one time I said I liked your post despite not liking you?
This is why I don't like you.
I will repeat that you seem to not understand how NT people draw, which is unfortunate for how it makes the question of how you can succeed in drawing much harder to conceptualize.
This sort of patronizing tone is gaslighting. You have already made it abundantly clear you care nothing for me as an individual. So why would you say things like "unfortunate" like you pity me? Its blatantly facetious and meant to deceive me into thinking you aren't being an asshole.
Your original comment was trying to blame a marginalized person for being offended by your ableism that's being a cry bully.
So why would you say things like "unfortunate" like you pity me?
You don't understand the framing, which is that for a certain cause or goal, an impeding or confounding factor is "unfortunate" for the goal, the goal here being something like "determining how you could hypothetically succeed in drawing". I don't especially care about you, but this doesn't hinge on me being personally invested in you, I'm just speaking in terms of stipulated aims.
Personally, you might forget this but I'm a communist and so I generally do want to see people succeed, and I do think that your lack of understanding about NT art is harming you and that that's a bad thing, but obviously I know I'm not going to get anywhere with you trying to talk on that level, so I don't bother.
Your original comment was trying to blame a marginalized person for being offended by your ableism that's being a cry bully.
"Crybully" does not mean "thinks your line of taking offense is bullshit," there is necessarily some element of reversing the direction of victimization. I do not claim that you are victimizing me or attempting to on any level.
All of this is obviously a deflection from the fact that you are simply wrong in the assertion that someone who can't produce mental images can only draw stick figures. If you actually care about this subject, I strongly encourage you to learn how to sketch scaffolding just like other art students do to get proportions correct. If you can use a compass and a ruler to draw a pentagram (and a protractor if you really like), you can do that. I've linked many testimonies from people with aphantasia that are the basis for much stronger claims, but I'm not interested in making those, I'm basically just arguing this because I find it frustrating when people assert conclusions that don't follow from the premises they lay out, and fundamentally nothing that you have said prevents you from sketching scaffolding for drawings.
You don't understand the framing
More patronizing and talking down.
which is that for a certain cause or goal, an impeding or confounding factor is "unfortunate"
Personally, you might forget this but I'm a communist
Its hard to remember you are supposedly a comrade when you keep talking down to me like I am stupid because I am Neurodivergent and keep downplaying my lived experiences. If someone says something you have said is racist, you stop, apologize, and ask for clarification if you need it. You do not defend what you said because there is a good chance you are defending racism. If someone says you are being homo/queer/transphobic the same rules apply. Why do you refuse to do self crit on ableism? Maybe I forget that you are supposedly a communist because you are doing your damnedest to prove you are the 11th type of liberal.
More patronizing and talking down.
Can someone disagree without patronizing and talking?
when you keep talking down to me like I am stupid because I am Neurodivergent
No, if I am talking down to you it's because you aren't actually engaging with simple points and continuously make faulty inferences.
Instead of doing the Umberto Eco Checklist But Socialist Now, can I interest you in opposing book worship? Can you or can you not draw a pentagram with the materials I mentioned before? If you are going to bandy Mao about, then you should oppose dogmatism in your comrades like you are using here as a crutch. Clearly, simply saying "I say so" is inadequate when the arguments as-presented don't follow, so perhaps explain more thoroughly.
I don't want to play the ND card, but you presume wildly incorrectly about my condition, though I certainly do lack your conditions.
I'm not going to do drawing exercises. I did that shit in college. It is my dysgraphia that stops my being able to draw with any proficiency. Theory only gives me knowledge that I cant use. My system lacks the firmware to take theoretical knowledge and turn it into a physical skill. I can't generate motor shortcut commands in my hands so every movement has to be recalculated consciously. I either take a really long time to draw each movement carefully or I do it quickly with a significant margin of error. Practicing won't make me any better at drawing. I can copy line work pretty well but that may as well just be tracing and so it really doesnt factor into a discussion about AI image generation because the AI's main value is being able to generate new images.
My aphantasia stops me from making images to use to create new original artworks. "Stick people" was an exaggeration but it really isn't far off. "Understanding the geometry" is dozens of math equations for anything more complex than Charlie Brown. When you visualize something your brain is doing trigonometry and perspective calculations that are not just "simple geometry." on top of that its doing lighting and shading and coloring and I don't even know what type of math that involves. People who can rotate a 3d image in their minds eye are doing calculations that are as complex as the ones that it took to put people on the moon and their brain is doing it in fractions of a second.
Think about the amount of physics math it would take to predict where a baseball is going to go after a batter hits it. An average 10 year old in little league can catch a pop fly. Their brain is running those calculations in nano seconds. Imagine someone who couldn't do those calculations playing baseball. They could be the most fit human in the history of the universe, run a 3 minute mile and be able to lift 3 times their weight but they couldn't catch or hit a ball so they'd be useless. They might be useful in other sporstball games but only in specialized roles that dot touch the ball. Would you expect them to learn the rules of the game or the proper technique to swing a bat?
Aphantasia makes it so that an artist has to work from a source image even if that image is stored in their motor memory. They practice drawing so that their hands can spit the images out without their brains ever seeing them. They are only ever making images based on things that they have drawn before or are looking at in the moment. Most artists do this to a degree they use stock data in their motor memory to make general shapes and then fill in details that make it unique.
I got an art diploma from college. I had instructors tell me to give up and change my focus from the first week. A painting Instructor once told me "you should never use a brush under 2 inches wide. If you want to be a painter the closest you will get is being a house painter." I stuck with it because I'm stubborn and changing my courses at that point would cost me a whole semester. I only passed most courses because showing up and doing the assignments was half the grade. Most of the reason for this was probably my dysgraphia but the system gatekeeps against all sorts neuro divergent and other conditions. (it also fetishizes others which is fucked in other ways) That prejudice keeps many people from ever trying to become artists.
Just because there are a few examples of aphantasia artists doesn't mean that it isn't a major hinderance. The level of ablist prejudice in art is probably as bad or worse than Politics is prejudiced against people based on race. Just because a black man was elected president doesn't mean that the system isn't built for old white men. If there were a tool to make a person's race not effect their chances in politics would banning it not be a racist act? Language to Image Models can make it so I can have a picture of a thing I lack the ability to see in my minds eye and the capacity to make with my hands. Is depriving me of the same rights to such image that another artist has over their images made using different tools not ableism?
"Just try harder" is puritanical nonsense. Tools were invented so that we don't have to work as hard. All technology right down to use of fire have been used in the pursuit of doing less work. We cook food so that we can expend less energy digesting. Most tech has been used or even completely developed for sole purpose of exploitation and violence. When so many tools make more human suffering the tools that make creation of a product accessible to people who otherwise would be incapable are something to be celebrated. Every tool regardless of what went into its creation has the end goal to make more work happen with less effort. AI images are no different. The technology that puts satellites into orbit was pioneered by Nazis who used slave labor from concentration camps. Do we condemn all satellite tech? The morality of a tools creator shouldn't be passed onto a tool just as the crimes of parents should not taint their children. Tools are inanimate and thus blameless anything that comes from the use of a tool is solely the production of the person using the tool and all morality questions are solved on their intentions and the outcome. A thousand children killed by a bomb is no more or less morally despicable than a thousand killed by a knife.
Feeling jaded because technology has made your hard fought skills obsolete is the "sunk costs" fallacy crossed with jealousy. It is emotional, illogical and reactionary. The Arguments of "plagiarism" or "stolen labor" are founded in liberalism's core tenet "protection of personal property." Communism is not about everyone getting their fair share of the profits of their labor. If no one is entitled to the excess value of labor by owning the means of production workers will get a larger share of the profits of labor but it is a consequence not the goal. Communism is about ending private property so that any excess profits of labor are redirected to everyone including those who cannot produce as much as they require to live instead of the excess profits going to people who do nothing but own things.
Comrade, I understand and agree with most of what you're saying, but
Feeling jaded because technology has made your hard fought skills obsolete is the "sunk costs" fallacy crossed with jealousy. It is emotional, illogical and reactionary.
You completely lost me here. We are (and I say we because I do not like the prospect of automating artistic endeavors) not even remotely concerned about it making manual art obsolete. Manual art has numerous upsides, not the least of which is the sheer degree of control the user has over what they're portraying, and as a result the ability to inspect quite literally every line of detail and consider if it fits what one is trying to portray. This level of control, this ability to portray, is not necessarily something AI art is incapable of, but AI art as a tool is fundamentally designed to do the exact opposite. It is like music sampling; The artistic portrayal doesn't come from the general societal conceptions that are regurgitated by the tool, but by the ways that an artist uses or modifies it. "Modifying" in this case would include modifying the model itself or it's variables, in my opinion, but not changing prompts (merely changing what words the AI reproduces societal attitudes of does not change that it is just reproducing societal attitudes, unless one goes so deep into detailing visual differences that I doubt the AI actually responds to it properly).
When we naively accept that these "naive regurgitations" are art in and of themselves, and even worse, normalize them as equal to manual art or an actually artistic use of AI art thereof, we trivialize actual human interpretation of the world around us. And this is the path we are currently racing towards at a terrifying speed.
I do not want us to "RETVRN" to manual art, I do not think AI art is "inferior" arbitrarily merely because I am scared of new things, but fundamentally I am opposed to the automation of a good that has to be produced manually (meaning not automatically, some uses of AI art could fall under that definition of manual here IMO, so I am using the term manual differently here than the rest of my comment) to fulfill a basic human need (that being the artistic reinterpretation of the world around us). Yes, this is fundamentally an issue that only exists under capitalism, but as we do not have a socialist revolution happening anytime soon, it's worth talking about other solutions for the right now.
I do not agree with the hostile tone of the other poster.
You know what is a completely irredeemable piece of technology? AI text generation. I don’t care if it makes me reactionary, until we find a practical way to actually help disabled people or something using it AI text generation can only exist as a shit substitute to human interaction and is shit in general. Fucking glorified exam cheating tool, we should only allow exam cheaters to use it. Fuck that shit
That struggle session was about individuals who use AI having a right to copyright what they make. Nobody was supporting AI companies.
You got called names because you were being a liberal of the fifth type. You were making despairing comments without offering actual arguments.
There you go being a #5 liberal again. You should read Combat liberalism... like every day... and not as a "to do" list.
The article that spawned that struggle session was about an AI image being copy writable by the the person feeding it prompts. It had literally nothing to do with any AI companies. "No investigation , no right to speak."
Nobody is simping for tech companies. Stop throwing out strawman arguments. Stop claiming that I have done no research and then ignoring when I pint out that you are the one who is arguing against a point nobody made. Stop throwing out pathetic insult and engange with my arguments. Stop being a
Am I gonna have to throw the PPB at you?To indulge in personal attacks, pick quarrels, vent personal spite or seek revenge instead of entering into an argument and struggling against incorrect views for the sake of unity or progress or getting the work done properly. This is a fifth type.
You don't engage with my arguments because you have no materialist arguments only reactionary emotion. You aren't refusing to engage you are incapable of doing so. You issues with AI are purely reactionary self interest. I'll apologise for calling you a classist. I was wrong on that front. A classist requires some degree of class consciousness. You are just a socially progressive reactionary. You use leftist language and like leftist ideas in so far as they would improve your life materially but you'd sell the revolution down the river for a quick buck.
I would... but see... that's the 6th type of liberalism and I combat that shit.
Its pretty funny to me that you have been waiting for someone to mention AI for 3 weeks. 3 weeks you've been seething and stewing and the best you can deliver is this reactionary spasm? I called you a lib and I also threatened to PPB you before you even thought of using it. Maybe try not using the insults that someone just used on you? Just because it cut you deep when I said it doesn't mean its gonna do the same to me.
You can disengage any time you like. It doesn't bother me to keep dunking on you. You are doing all the heavy lifting.
I'm noticing that you have spent your entire day seething because I called you out on your liberalism.
You don't need to log off. You need to login... to reddit with the other reactionaries.
You have spent the entire day imagining weird scenarios where you aren't just inventing ways people disagreeing with you are bad people who are instantly owned. It has not gotten less bad. This has now culminated in you making up a scenario where people need to go to reddit because they don't agree with you in your AI boosterism.
This is sometimes true, but I've also seen a lot of arguments in favor of it on this website that are more well thought out that what the OP linked. Still on the "anti" side myself though.
edit: I find it extremely funny that after writing this comment about how I've seen a lot of good discussion on this website on the topic of AI, a shit flinging argument immediately broke out. 10/10 never change Hexbear.
Maybe I dislike AI art because it invariably ends up in this uncanny valley territory where on first glance it looks like “real” art but the longer you look at it the more you realize something is off about it.
TBF there is a certain half-truth here in that the fundamental underlying problem is the inherent contradictions in capitalism and not AI/machine learning spitting out art or writing based on a database of art/writing. However, we do live under capitalism, and thus appeals to novelty don’t automatically nullify the impact to creative workers.
idk I think oop has a point, lots of people on here seem to have reactionary protestant brained hangups about what is and isn't real art. It goes back to the like, max nordau with his entartete kunst (remember what happened to him). makes me deeply skeptical of anyone criticizing art as being lesser and harmful because of its form or presentation. And I thought 100 years ago we mostly settled this debate on the side of weird avant garde/experimental art.
I mean, with weird avant garde/experimental art you have a person making decisions about what they're making, how they're doing it, where they're displaying it, etc. There's intentionality to it - the artist has to visualize what they're going to do before they do it, and in that process the differences between one experimental artist who paints their canvasses all a single color and a different person doing something similar become alighted.
With generated images, however, the entire decision-making process has been offloaded to a machine, which by definition does not understand what it's doing or why, cannot have intentionality, and can only give a weighted average of the decisions that other artists have made in the past. From the "artist"'s point of view, you have an idea of what you want to see and you put in keywords related to it, and then you cycle through generated images until you get to one that's "close enough". Your input on the production of the image itself is completely alienated from it - you're like a producer telling someone what to paint, and then telling them to try again if you don't like it.
I mean, we have avant garde art where the author only transforms the raw materials very lightly, the most famous and controversial example perhaps being a certain porcelain fountain.
Also for AI specifically, depending on the model the artist has a pretty significant degree of control over various parameters of the generation, e.g. by 'fine tuning' and grafting your own data on top of the existing weights. It's certainly not just typing in different words. In the end I don't really see how it's fundamentally different from an artist applying various algorithmic filters and other transforms in Photoshop or whatever.
Yes but that's a decision, they were presented with the entire toilet and made a conscious decision to keep it. Choosing to use the instant art button isn't a "decision", because you have no information about what you'll get from it unless you yourself are the algorithm
How is it different? The artist is presented with a generated image and can choose to keep it and publish or discard it.
People don't actually consider it that deeply. Dadaism has a cultural backdrop of artistic conflict that the creator thinks about when making it. When they make these art pieces and installations, they do so purposely knowing it's base nature, and riff off of it. This would be fine if AI artists actually did this... but no. They think they're actually Picasso. If there's any artistic value to it, it's own statement reflects negatively on itself.
Edit: This is because the toilet, which is a physically manifested object in reality, the AI generated pieces are effectively manifestations of societal attitudes, so using it without any modification or thought is just reproducing those attitudes.
Just remembered, this Tumblr has good takes on ai art and argues them better than I do. https://www.tumblr.com/txttletale/737649090420195328/hey-im-not-here-to-say-ai-art-isnt-art-the
She has other good posts about it (tagged ai-art)
This completely ignores my main point, though. I don’t care how much effort someone put into something, the problem is that manual art is a depiction of how the artist personally experiences the things they’re portraying, AKA societal attitudes filtered through their own experiences, while AI art is the unmitigated portrayal of what they tell it to state. Both take effort from both machine (tool) and computer, but only AI art reproduces societal attitudes without reflection
Sure, NOW they see how foolish intellectual property is when it's done with artists.
I mean there's a point to be made here that there's a split here. Sure I care about small artists having their shit stolen at no recuperation, but the IP laws aren't written for those people anways, they're written for Disney, who I could not care less about having their art stolen if only for the damages to IP law they caused.
The argument is of course, very bad. The Luddites were resistent to change and they were not reactonaries, they saw basically the same stuff that happens here: I'll lose my livelihood and my lifes work so some other asshole gets richer, at no pay to me, but that's just the inherent contradiction of technological advance concentrating money in fewer and fewer hands.
The better (materialist) argument for being in support of AI (or at least being against the current anti-AI movement) would be more along the lines that Luddites were wrong because they were fighting the means of production, which is absolutely pointless because that is just fighting the tendency for the rate of profit to fall. The only way to solve the issues with AI and its impacts on labor would be to attack the relations of production, which would remove the need to actually do anything about the technology itself (good thing too, because the sheer amount of effort that would be required to remove all generative AI from existence and keep it suppressed indefinitely would make overthrowing an entire social order look easy by comparison).
The linked argument does not cover this, it is instead comparing it to the aesthetics of reaction, which is the least useful thing that could be done unless they're just looking for a talking point.
I agree, I'd just like to hand it to the luddites for figuring out the core issue. I don't think them not getting the solution correct is really making them wrong, sort of just proto-right
Being against the current anti-AI art movement is reactionary because it's mostly just a labor movement looking for regulation. Nobody really wants to destroy the technology or suppress the supposedly inevitable march of technology (though the "inevitability" of that I think is questionable), they just want corporations to vow not to use this shit to replace artists, and want to ensure artists that make plenty of creative decisions are still valued by the general public.
I fucking hate AI because it has put me on the side of fucking nerds who care about things like IP and plagiarism.
There are genuine arguments to be made for the promulgation of AI, but unless you fundamentally pack those arguments with a need for a more equitable society with large-scale redistribution of wealth, you are arguing for utter chaos and poverty for large swathes of the current population. Digital goods still make no sense in a capitalist context, because scarcity doesn't exist - they are borderline inherently incompatible.
While, from a disabilities perspective and from a general perspective, it could make sense that AI art would be "harmless" in the absence of capitalism, and i get where people are coming from... I don't think that's actually true, really.
Well, it would probably be more precise to say that AI art IS harmless... But that the general attitude and how it is currently being used and could be used, even under a communist system of production, is absolutely terrifying. I'm probably falling into whatever the fuck argument the article is making, but I don't care, because it's meaningless to me. Anyways, AI art does have a fundamental problem, but that's not because generative language models are the issue, but because current language models and any theoretical communist offshoots of it are entirely socially-reproductive; They do not reflect social attitudes through the filter of a human being's actual experiences, all of their suffering and joy and whatever the fuck ooeygooey stuff, but are basically designed to straight up mainline cultural attitudes directly into your skull.
If you type "beautiful woman" into a model like this, I'm willing to bet actual money that it's always going to return a thin woman. "Successful businessman" is probably going to return some random white dude. And this isn't just a case of fixing this by adding exceptions and SJW-ifying the language model, because that is just a never-ending torrent of whack-a-mole that has to be constantly reexamined. You'd be expecting all of the work that artists normally do for EVERY SINGLE PIECE they make to be done just once for EVERY SINGLE ARTIST, and the end result of that would be that all art made with it would have only one perception of reality. Basically the full centralization of art.
The solution to this would be to turn AI art into an actual art tool instead of a gimmick item, giving every user knobs and tools and making it unintuitive in all the ways art creation software are on purpose because they're necessary for being an actual creation tool. Yes, this makes it somewhat less accessible, but (and I know I'm not really able to speak on it) not really in the sense that it fucks over disabled people, just... makes it an actual art tool instead of a cultural regurgitation gimmick. Like visual synths, artistic sampling.
Ultimately the fear within capitalism RIGHT NOW is that capitalism does not have the tools to incentivize something like that. The only kind of AI art tool that has to exist under capitalism is the culturally regurgitative kind, because every aspect of it is easy to sell.
So communism doesn't SAVE us from AI art, but it gives us the ability to have an actual solution for it.
giving every user knobs and tools and making it unintuitive in all the ways art creation software are on purpose because they're necessary for being an actual creation tool.
remove the intent, and you have the current state of open source AI
Indeed, but that isn’t something that someone can just download and use, it is being actively marketed as an instant art button and not the visual sampler it is and all of the support is being given towards the instant art button philosophy
Depends on where you look, really. Most of the interesting new developments (and the bulk of what's available only for open source models and not commercial ones because commercial models can't possibly adapt these things and make them user friendly fast enough) have been a bunch of conditioning models, whose only purpose is adding another layer of human input. And they're usually extremely useful, because there's far more that can be expressed spatially that you can't express with text.
Yeah, the instant art button is what gets the most attention (usually in the form of anime girls with anatomically impossible proportions since straight people are boring), but you can also definitely make things more complicated and gain far more control in the process, and I see plenty of people who came for the instant art ending up doing this down the line. Plenty even going as far as picking up a pen tablet and developing conventional drawing skills to use alongside it. At some point along that process, I think it's clear that it starts being used as a tool.
I mean, you can say what you want, but I think there's going to be a devaluation of "real" art and I think that's sad
Regardless of how many knobs we put on the thing in open source communities, corporations will push and likely exclusively use the "instant art button", because that's what employers want and what appeals the most to the general public. It's what sells, something that's purposely "worse"/more complicated is always going to sell less except as niche stuff redditors do.
Even the art done with "complicated" AI with knobs will be devalued as the general public sees the labor put into it as worthless. Most of the arguments I have seen against this fact are basically just cope. The "anti-AI" art movement isn't just Luddism, it's a movement for the continued perception of labor-intensive art as valuable. It is a movement against the algorithimification of visual art, against the full commodification of art as a concept. Dismissing or being against the movement as a whole is... disgusting, given this, honestly. The only reason to is to encourage the algorithimification of art... something only random executives want. I understand critical support but outright opposition is absurd. It would be like "opposing" the Luddites: You can point out that they're wrong with their goals and strategies, but outright opposing the ENTIRE movement is just a basic anti-labor attitude.
That sounds like a very bad faith reading.
I am sure that there are plenty of people in the movement who are only looking for that, and I support things like the Writers Guild wanting protections in their contracts. That is not the dominant theme in the anti-AI movement. By far the most prominent voices are large corporations and a handful of fairly successful independent artists who are interested in strengthening copyright, which will be of little benefit to anyone who is not already wealthy enough to pursue a copyright infringement case. There's also plenty of people who do actually want to ban the technology outright or who fantasize about sabotaging it somehow, I don't know how anyone could follow anti-AI discourse and not see any of that. The likely outcome of strengthening copyright as part of this, though, is that large media companies will then continue to displace workers using AI tools while also making a larger share of money from the development from either selling access to datasets built from their internal libraries or by leveraging their exclusive access to said data, none of which actually benefits artists. IP law is not there to protect small artists, it is only capable of protecting those who can afford to go to court over it, everyone else will get fucked over as usual. But I'm sure that the Copyright Alliance and the handful of independent artists that they want to present as a human face will be pretty happy about it.
The one thing that this could restrict is open-source development of said models, which will make them harder to access for any independent artist who wishes to use them (if we assume that use of AI tools becomes a prevailing standard this will be necessary, if we assume that independent artists will be fine without them then presumably it follows that we don't need to do anything at all) by making sure that they are reliably behind a paywall and generating profits for either an AI company or a media company. At best, this leaves independent artists slightly worse off when accounting for the effort spent on putting this plan into action, at worst it would make it far more profitable for tech companies and media companies alike.
If a movement is claiming to do something in the name of labor, but material analysis shows that the plan is very obviously DOA and if anything will make the issue worse, I'm going to oppose that, and I am going to have heavy disagreements with the anti-AI movement as long as its dominant messaging is clinging to IP law in the hopes that it will somehow magically transform into something that benefits workers without comparable effort to what it would take to overthrow capitalism outright.
Clinging to IP law is of course stupid and I agree with opposing that
However, I never really think of those people when I think of the "anti-AI" art movement- I think of random furries online who just dislike AI art or artists who are pissed about having their labor exploited specifically to exploit them more efficiently.
I think of random furries online who just dislike AI art
A few people I know are actually getting harassment, up to and including death threats from this group. Unfortunately those are also part of that movement and tend to be some of the ones freshest in my mind at any given time.
Ok, well, who are these people you know? That sounds like it's missing context.
Someone back me up here.
Hot take: ai "art" doesnt actually stop you from making art yourself
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I'm probably not the best person to be arguing about this thing but I think there's broader context that needs to be accounted for here. In an ideal world where AI art doesn't impact peoples' livelihood because their livelihood doesn't depend on selling their art to capitalists my position would likely be pretty neutral. It's another tool in the bag. But we don't live in that society, we live in the society where workers are exploited by capitalists and AI art impacts the livelihood of artists because those artists need to be able to sell their art to capitalists to live. So in my view the OOP is being very idealistic with their argument.
