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.

  • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Let me just magic all the time in the world plus talent because "work hard" literally does not work for everyone just because I think it'd be kinda funny to see an image of Gandalf boxing with Shrek and don't wanna pay someone out of the money I don't have to see it

    • macabrett
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      2 years ago

      okay so AI art is consumerist bullshit that you don't want to pay for, got it

      • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        okay so AI art bad because literally every single human being is a nascent artist with the talent to make its pursuit worthwhile and has all the time in the world to devote to improvement, got it

        • macabrett
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          2 years ago

          no, it's bad because it takes other people's art without permission and constructs something new from it with zero inspiration

            • macabrett
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              2 years ago

              software developer that knows "machine learning" is just a name for something that takes input and lumps it together with other input

          • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I make shitty art, that doesn't mean I feel entitled to someone using it in like some D&D campaign with players going :awooga: "wow looks so good!" and I'm not naive enough to think that "just keep practicing" definitively equates to the development of skill for every single person on the planet

              • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                nobody thinks this. you’re basically just making up people to argue with.

                dawg,

                Not everybody has the talent to make art that’s worth looking at

                then you work at it, it’s a skill like any other

                literally comments above this

        • FunnyUsername [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          Then I don't understand why you feel art is only worth creating or viewing unless it fits conventional, subjective ideas

          I don't know how to play guitar but there's entire genres of music that people listen to that don't fit the mold of what is "good"

          • GorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            because depending on the context of the art, i.e. whether it's some sort of therapeutic self expression (the art I do), or someone trying to make something aesthetically appealing to another person, it literally does matter how it looks

            Everyone has always been able to make art, that’s not something that’s suddenly changed with this new technology

            everyone can technically put ink on paper and say they did an art, but now with AI art someone with no technical skill, training, or ability (whether artistic ability or the literal physical ability to make art, i.e. someone with Parkinson's) can direct the computer to make something that actually looks pretty decent, which might not matter to you but if someone wants to have some art to go with a book they're writing or an album cover or their Dungeons and Dragons campaign or whatever they're now able to do so (without shelling out what might be an unfeasible amount of money to pay an Actual Artist)