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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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I have no idea about all this stuff, but I have a question: so you have artists who work with computers. Let's say a 3D artist for the movie Jurrasic Park. So if a computer creates a sphere for you to build a dinosaur head out of it this is "good", because you had to work longer on it, but if it creates the whole head for you to work on this is "bad", because they need less time for basics? They would have more time to be creative this way, or not? I really struggle to understand when something is considered "good" or "bad" in that context. I mean even if someone is working on an elaborate AI prompt to generate an image, isn't that art? Maybe it's not the art of painting, but the art of describing a scene to someone? Just wondering....
Art has always had that issue. Is a potato print worse than a hand drawn figure?
Sometimes you need to know the material or technique to appreciate the effort.
It also applies outside of art. It's not always the end product that is important. We can appreciate things for being more difficult than necessary. Like the game Roller Coaster Tycoon being impressive because it was coded in assembly, or the Olympic guy who no-scoped in the shooting competition etc.
If the AI prompt is the effort, it should be appreciated as such, instead of comparing the end product against other techniques. We also don't compare airbrushed grafitti artwork to oil paintings, because even if the end product of both is a neat picture, it's impossible to judge against each other.