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...
people forget that what makes art impressive is also the skill of the artist in the respective medium
if someone creates a perfect color gradient fill in Photoshop nobody is going to be impressed but make it with colored pencils and people may regard it as stunning
the beauty is also in the effort it took to create, not only in what the result looks like - i don't need to take time to look at stuff people didn't take time to make
I think there already is AI art but it's not the art that everyone is talking about, it's not your run-of-the-mill fantasy illustration prompt but people exploring what can be made with tools like that.
Rather than focusing on emulating traditional illustration, they invent their own processes and that is the work.
Until one can produce work that makes an impression with some precision one has to have experience in the medium though - and different media are different regarding to what that means.
With illustration and representative art it starts with something 'reading' correctly, i.e. whether the intended representation even gets to the recipient. And then there are more layers on top of that getting ever more meta.
Someone who can put a urinal on a pedestal and cause an uproar in whichever direction has a lot of experience - but if a picture is just a picture or a urinal is just a urinal, it's not worth looking at much, except for its engineering. Good art doesn't have to be on that level though, entertainment can also be good art (but a lot of it isn't) - there, it's about resonance.
You're right that craftsmanship alone cannot produce good art, there is something else driving the desire to hone craftsmanship, which is maybe to better be able to express what was impressed on the artist through life. Something that resonates with the artist is made with the hope it also resonates with other people, art is a social endeavour.
But I also feel that to a large extent, honing the craft also hones the intuition (and some knowledge as far as it can be distilled) for what makes things resonant with others. I make myself into the diffusion model to resonate with what I'm making while making it, you feel each curve you put to paper or canvas, you feel the tension in a pose, the impact of a composition - the resulting art is what's there when that process is abandoned.
I feel like a vegan about the currently available models - once there is something made from public domain art only I'll experiment. But right now I'm sitting in front of them like a vegan in front of sausage: For others the result is food but for them, they just see the process turning individuals into sausage.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....
yeah and productivity increase has decoupled from wage in 1980, while productivity rises wages stay the same - why should anyone who's not a multimillionaire find that acceptable?
it's ironic, since AI generated always looks polished - but the identification is mostly context-based i.e. we know nobody would pay anyone for making that illustration from scratch: because it's a throw-away
illustrations will be ubiquitous but mostly shit, only the shit will be more polished
so if an illustration is highly polished but otherwise garbage, it's AI with high probability - because the craftsmanship of the generator exceeds the artistic taste and development of the user
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
yes they do (am German) but politicians are dancing on eggshells with Israeli behavior and the antisemitism-accusations
imo, uncritically supporting what the Israeli government is doing hurts the rememberance of the Holocaust - how can you sell 'never again' when civilians have to suffer like this?
Wow, I finished it with my SO last year - but in the last temple, we needed a guide (the map is wtf levels of traps and dead ends) and save states to retry the boss combo. We wouldn't have been able to finish it
DUBAI — Attendees of the COP28 Climate Summit set aside the solutions to impending climate catastrophe after being dazzled by the inclusion of an ostentatious crude oil fountain in the dining hall, event coordinators have reported....
Hi, English isn’t my mother tongue so I was asking myself that question since I first encounted a w/… Back then I was like: “What tf does ‘w slash’ stand for?” And when I found out I was like “How, why, and is it any intuitive?” But I never dared to ask that until now
Back when business was done entirely by paper, you'd have catalogues, books full of tables of things you could order with their prices. You have limited space for printing item names and those abbreviations were used there (e.g. in the 1920s).
listen to the director's commentary of the thing or escape from new york - both are extremely entertaining. Kurt Russell and Carpenter are drinking and laughing their asses off.
Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)
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...
AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel (www.aljazeera.com)
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Dutch firm Meatable can turn pig stem cells into sausages 60 times faster than farmers can rear pigs. (tech.eu)
Choose your items (lemmy.zip)
OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....
I got less than 2 hours of sleep and I'm having a terruleble day at work (i.postimg.cc)
Edit: Reading what makes you happy helped me through the day. I wish you all the greatest of happiness!
Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games (kotaku.com)
Jeff Bezos foresees a trillion people living in millions of space colonies. Here's what he's doing to get the ball rolling. (www.nbcnews.com)
OC I built my first gundam today (HG Victory 2), it's not finished entirely yet but I'm kinda prou German
Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos (www.theguardian.com)
A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Donald Trump May 'Turn Off the Internet' if Elected, Former Staffer Says (www.newsweek.com)
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Twitch will now allow "Artistic Nudity" following the viral topless meta (www.dexerto.com)
Twitch Updated their Sexual Content Policy:...
Auditing firm distances itself from German car maker VW’s China plant in Xinjiang, a region where rights groups documented abuses including mass forced labour in detention camps (feddit.de)
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Bethesda confirms they are working on releasing new features you asked for, from city maps, to mod support, to all new ways of traveling next year for Starfield (www.reddit.com)
[Zelda II]I did it! (lemmy.world)
I’ve been determined to finally beat Zelda II and determine that I would do it without save states and without a guide....
Climate Conference Attendees Dazzled by Crude Oil Fountain in Dining Hall (thehardtimes.net)
DUBAI — Attendees of the COP28 Climate Summit set aside the solutions to impending climate catastrophe after being dazzled by the inclusion of an ostentatious crude oil fountain in the dining hall, event coordinators have reported....
Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive (arstechnica.com)
Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
Hi, English isn’t my mother tongue so I was asking myself that question since I first encounted a w/… Back then I was like: “What tf does ‘w slash’ stand for?” And when I found out I was like “How, why, and is it any intuitive?” But I never dared to ask that until now
Not knowing wtf Kevin is this weekend (media3.giphy.com)
John Carpenter on being called a "master director of horror": "That's nice; sorry, I'm eating a Popsicle" (www.avclub.com)