Oh the Ai art generator has no "soul" and it's soy and reddit? This precious art form (illustrating things that other people pay you to, a medium dominated almost entirely by furries, porn, and furry porn) is being destroyed by the evil AI? I'm sorry that the democratization of art creation is so upsetting to you. I've brought dozens of ideas to life by typing words into a prompt and I didn't have to pay someone $300 to do so.
I think, though, that what you have is a separate more abstract conversation about what "art" is and what makes it "worth looking at" that I don't think necessarily correlates with this discussion about AI.
Like, there are many people in the world physically capable of holding a paintbrush; and you probably wouldn't consider every action perpetrated via paintbrush to be art. If my plain white picket fence is aesthetically pleasing and "worth looking at," and was painted with a brush, is that art? So what separates my fence from a child's hand-painting of their family? Everyone has some capacity to communicate abstracted ideas and emotions through some sort of expressive medium, be it physical or otherwise, and deciding whether or not it's "worth looking at" is a pretty subjective bar to be using.
While I don't agree that algorithmic image generation is "democratizing art" it certainly provides a possibility for an art medium that's more accessible depending on how it is integrated. It may take a long time for new technology like this to be integrated in what we would call a healthy way but the way I see it is this is a new medium we haven't adjusted to yet, and until we do it will be used to create content.
Yes. All this is, IMO, is another tool. I've mentioned it in a previous thread but Pixar made a stink about motion capture tech back in the aughts. Looking back, that's silly - of course mocap doesn't make art lesser. Neither does using photoshop, or digital animation, or cameras...
Precisely, see also the music scene in like the early 2000's when people were having strokes over music being made out of math equations.
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What I am referring to isn't the viability of Musician as an occupation, but the merits of a proposed artistic medium (electronic music via mathematical equation.)
I don't necessarilly disagree with you, it's just a different conversation.