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Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on copyrighted material without the original artists' permission. And that's without getting into AI's negative drag on the environment.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Thats an unfair comparison. Were not talking about “painters” or “illustrators” but using the very general term “artist”

I literally started by saying i agree that just asking sm premade like bing to generate x with y isnt making art.

But there can be deep creative processes involved in getting an ai to generate just right and any actual professionals i do know use AI will more often then not use photoshop edits as parts of their process. The ai is a tool.

If you are intentionally using creative process to create an imagined output then you are by dictionary definition an artist.

Stable diffusion is also much more a technology then a product, anyone with a decent gpu can train their own models and many people have. Using someone elses models is no different then using someone else’s brushes in a painting program because what counts is what you do with it, which often involves alot more then just typing in a prompt.

If you want some examples of the creative freedom and complexity one can get just search for “comfyui workflow”

In your sport example, if you managed to step for step guide and train a basic robot (so not a toy preconfigured to play sports)into properly playing sports you wouldn't perse fit the dictionary for an athlete but you having the knowledge to do this could create a reasonable assumption that you are. Otherwise i would say amateur-engineer could also apply because you probably need to know a lot about how the robot joints function. At the very least i would call you an artist because it would take a lot of creative trial and error to pull off.