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.

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      more like AI art is implicitly less interesting because it doesn't have human skill, it doesn't have inspiration, and it doesn't have meaning

      it's literally a machine taking an input (stolen art) and giving an output based on some words

      this isn't democratizing art, it's making idea guys think they're artists

      • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        less interesting because it doesn’t have human skill, it doesn’t have inspiration, and it doesn’t have meaning

        Thank you, exactly what I was talking about in the OP.

      • Dawn_Beveridge [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I'm sorry, but I have trouble interpreting it as anything other than a 'pull yourself by your bootstrap'. Is that really the main argument against AI, that it facilitates labour?

            • hypercube [she/her]
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              2 years ago

              I think it's more that they think you should value the process of creating art, of which you will gain little to no understanding from typing into the DALL-E hole, but you will when you engage in your classical field of choice. imo the main argument against it is that, as a tool of automation under capital, it is built using the work of the proletariat but used to concentrate power & wealth by the bougeoisie. really not too different from the automatic loom or w/e, not ontologically evil but currently being turned against those who made it possible in the first place