AI doesn’t even make art is the thing without human art to train on and remix its useless horrorific nonsense. Capitalists just found a way to legalize plagarizing for themselves while keeping it illegal to redistribute their hoarded IPs.
“AI sucks because it’s shitty art” is really not a strong argument for people to go for.
For one, it appears to be largely based on the misconception of AI as only being low effort output from already dated models. Like someone put in “hot girl” and it gave them a generic samey picture like thousands of others. But models are already getting to the point where it’s harder to tell at a glance whether it’s AI, if the person put in even a little effort into prompting.
For another, it indirectly puts down less skilled artists. Those who are doing their best, but have a lot to learn and get better at (which is probably most people who draw). It implies the issue is that the output doesn’t look good enough, but most illustrators will have flaws in what they draw, sometimes even as a conscious stylistic effect if they are skilled enough to be looping back around to manipulating style in that way. The notable difference with AI generated images is a mismatch in effort and choices made; for example, images that are super detailed, yet make basic anatomy errors.
Lastly, it has a fatal problem, which is that if AI tech gets good enough to fool most people at a glance (and some of it is arguably already getting there), then all you need to do is not disclose that AI was used and people will accept it as legitimate “art”.
AI doesn’t even make art is the thing without human art to train on and remix its useless horrorific nonsense. Capitalists just found a way to legalize plagarizing for themselves while keeping it illegal to redistribute their hoarded IPs.
“AI sucks because it’s shitty art” is really not a strong argument for people to go for.
For one, it appears to be largely based on the misconception of AI as only being low effort output from already dated models. Like someone put in “hot girl” and it gave them a generic samey picture like thousands of others. But models are already getting to the point where it’s harder to tell at a glance whether it’s AI, if the person put in even a little effort into prompting.
For another, it indirectly puts down less skilled artists. Those who are doing their best, but have a lot to learn and get better at (which is probably most people who draw). It implies the issue is that the output doesn’t look good enough, but most illustrators will have flaws in what they draw, sometimes even as a conscious stylistic effect if they are skilled enough to be looping back around to manipulating style in that way. The notable difference with AI generated images is a mismatch in effort and choices made; for example, images that are super detailed, yet make basic anatomy errors.
Lastly, it has a fatal problem, which is that if AI tech gets good enough to fool most people at a glance (and some of it is arguably already getting there), then all you need to do is not disclose that AI was used and people will accept it as legitimate “art”.