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What are your thoughts on AI Art? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As an artist, I think it is a net negative for us. Disregarding the copyright issue, I think it's also consolidating power into large corporations, going to kill learning fundamental skills (rip next generation of artists), and turn the profession into a low skill minimum wage job. Artists that spent years learning and perfecting their skills will be worth nothing and I think it's a pretty depressing future for us. Anways thoughts?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was leaning towards being opposed to AI art, but you've convinced me the other way.

I imagine the same debates that happened twenty years ago will come round again, on whether digital art is really art. I'd say so. It seems much more obviously art than something AI generated, but there will be fine art buffs who reject it.

And before then, there would have been a debate on natural or artificial pigments or the virtues of rabbit skin glue over a synthetic alternative, and so on.

The employment thing is the problem, rather than the technology. But that's not new. It's even a meme to be a starving artist.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to finish this cave drawing.

PS There's a good podcast episode on art history. RevLeftRadio,I think. Could be Proles of the Roundtable. Spoiler to hide sensitive description:

spoilerThe episode talks about a pigment made by crushing Egyptian mummies. The damn Europeans had no fucking respect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think the problematic AI tool here isn't AI that helps artists finish artwork or automate menial tasks, but AI that has been fed with every copyrighted artwork on the internet and is sold as an artist-replacement tool.