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.
Yeah, this thread is frustrating. Like of course all technology developed under capitalism is abused and weaponized against the working class, if only there was some ideological movement fighting to abolish private ownership of the means of production... 🤔
Then you've got threads where people argue that art is subjective and there is no universal standard of judgement, but also AI art is intrinsically meaningless and lazy. You can always tell!!!!! If it's so worthless and empty then what threat does it pose to artists? (Also I swear I've heard that last rhetoric somewhere else, I can't quite put my finger on it... 🤔 )
And how about it stealing from artists? Is this website about to become pro copyright law? If I wake a painting in the style of Van Gogh or Picasso, is that plagiarism? How about copying the style of thousands of artists? If I'm painting an apple and take inspiration from every painting of an apple ever, is that even stealing art anymore, or an I just copying the shared concept of an apple?
Strong terf energy in those sorts of statements. :thinking-about-it: Its almost like its reactionary
Certainly has no parallels to trans people being purposefully misunderstood and sidelined for being 'mockeries and fabrications' of 'true women'.
YUP! Exactly. And I know it feels weird to compare real people to tech, but its such a reactionary tactic, both are extracted from some absurd puritanical values of what deserves to be """real""".
Yeah, obviously. I'm trans myself and it does peak my ear when I hear someone saying familiar things. If anything, it shows those people are susceptible to reactionary arguments. Its also telling that a lot of what people are saying relies strongly on mystic terms like 'inspiration' and 'real'. TERFs see cis women through a mystical lens as well.
I feel like the people carrying on about "experience" are just rehashing the "free will vs determinism" argument wrapped around art.
I mean who cares if the simulation is creating its own simulation?