What's wrong with AI art?

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[soap]

Someone said about ai written books "why would I bother to read something no one was bothered to write?" And it sums up how I feel so much

[dt]

Some tiktok comment said the most raw cite about this theme; "I didn't believe in human spirit until I saw how art looked without one."

[PrussianFox]

I hate that feeling I get when I find out something is ai art because it looks really good then I realize nobody actually spent time and effort to make it

[miucegai]

My favorite analogy on this topic is the food one: there is a world of difference between a pre-cooked microwavable meal and a home cooked meal made with love and passion.

[HimePenguin]

Not an artist, but I understand 100%.
In fact, I wouldn't even call it "AI art". Just "AI image" or something. Whatever one might call it, it's certainly not art.

[Xesparaz]

Another big problem with me is ai generated photos - makes searching for references 100x harder when u need a photo of an animal or landscape and you get fake pics in return

[Pandrew]

Without an artist, an artwork is dead silent

Edit: 4k likes?! WAIT.... HEH????!!! TY ❤

[wildlylucky]

its like why do you expect me to care about an image you couldn't even care enough to make

[michaelkindt]

We honestly need more stuff like this in the AI debate. Obviously it's bad that many companies are effectively stealing art in order to train their AIs, but I feel like a lot of waving off the more broader debate by comparing it to Photoshop, or saying "it will never be good" as thought to many cliches not think about it further. The questions of "why we make art"; "why we consume art"; and "why we value art" are going to be some of the most important questions going forward, but they're also some of the questions people are the least interested in answering.

But on that topic, there are apparently people who do use air art as A form of expression? Like, there are people out there who legitimately view it as a way to get their ideas that are in their head out of their head. And they're even AI art tools specifically designed to get more control out of the end product. I've even noticed this aspect of AI being advertised in the apps for grammarly and stuff recently, probably because it makes it sound like it won't replace your job.

Give him what you said in the short, I don't imagine it would change your views too much, since the final details are still being left up to the AI by necessity, but I do feel as an interesting wrinkle in the debate, and once again brings up the questions I mentioned above.

[hellen]

I personally don’t have a problem with ai art, I do have a problem with those people who pretend that their ai artwork is drawn. Like, can we celebrate the ingenuity of computers without trying to replace their creators please?

[royalvartist]

I love the point that in AI art "There's no questioning why a certain mark is there"

There's no deeper conversation on why an artist made this or that choice, because there were no choices. No purpose behind any of it.

[nouli]

Imagine watching someone play a game really well, but then you discover it's actually just a bot. That's the feeling

Edit: My issue is not with the existence of bots, AI or TAS, I think you can enjoy them for what they are, my issue is with someone using them to trick others, pretending not to use them, and you later realized you were deceived.

[jzc]

Its like starting a choose your own adventure book and flipping to all the endings

[piranhabones]

One thing I noticed when looking at many AI images is this...

I cannot easily tell if an AI image is AI, but I can sure as hell tell when a drawing is made by an human

[jsrenatus]

This is so well put together! Thank you for your perspective! I think there's just something about the human heart and the passion, and the way an artist does things - like the way a line is done, that makes human-made art so interesting. It's wonderful being able to see a person's work and admire the time and effort they put into it. That's at least half of the fun of seeing art.

[sochex]

As an artist, I think the fact that computers can generate an endless amount of images and videos is pretty cool and shows how much we've advance since the day we started drawing on caves, how ever, it has started to take the essence of art away being a way of expressing your self and a craft that takes hard work, patience and dedication to master to being something any one can make with a device and internet

[soulvz]

The youtuber analogy was good. Especially since with youtube so much of the enjoyment (depending on the content) comes from that authenticity. Like when some tries 100 times to beat one boss in a hard game, or stuff like that, people enjoy seeing the struggle and eventual payoff from that hardwork

[dracocrusher]

The only people who really push AI art see creating things as a business. They're not here for the actual work and they don't care about the intent, they're just here to sell you on art as a product. Which isn't worth a ton, especially when it's a janky and inconsistent product.

[kisukoev]

I love how this could be a weird summary of mgs2

[FRISHR]

MrBeast challenge videos are now just scripted like AI