The AI “Art” Conundrum

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[Awesomemay]

definitely do more videos like this, so entertaining and so flavorful

[wibblesquid]

This is such a great video! The part about creating art as a kid hit super close to home. I’m always chasing that feeling of creating art purely because it made me happy, and it’s comforting to know that no matter how far AI comes it will never be able to replicate that!

[NerylaLouvel]

I feel I have an analogy that could work?

Imagine the tech companies and you are invited to a wonderful & relaxing nature hike in the mountains. But they get in a car and drive to the end of the trail, celebrating and telling you to buy their cars. The point of art is lost on them.

A.I. is paraded not as a tool with custom niche features to help artists, but as a money-making machine. And then they call you delusional for trying to continue being an artist or stand as a competitor (which, if we don't stand a chance against A.I., why bother tell us to quit, right?).

A.I. itself is cool, but the attitude of these tech-bros and the model of it all is obviously built hostile and falsely accuses artists of ''gatekeeping'' art???

[voidfisher]

cartified jacademia classic. have kinda felt the fire in me for art dim a little recently with all the AI art stuff but this video gave me some comfort. thanks for that! :)

[garuluialternative]

I'd like to thank you over your statements of how any art can be good. I've often been comparing myself to other artists who have entirely different art styles, and I know it's not right for me to beat myself up over art that's clearly going for a different direction than others. I'm happy to have my own art style, and how I have the flexibility with my skills to try different art styles if I want. Thank you so much, this is a great bit of inspiration for me.

[juanrodriguez]

I see AI the same way I see NFTs, a neat idea with potential which if used well can be great for people, the difference being that AI gives immediate satisfaction with stolen art while NFTs require you to think in ways in which it can be actually useful (and since the idiots using them didn't think of anything they just died).

Great ideas being poorly used kills a bright future, that's why this kind of stuff needs to be regulated, needs laws to make them work in ethical ways, just look at what Spiderverse did by feeding AI with its own work + afterwork in order to improve it.

These are new tools to reach our end goals, not the end goal itself.

[Nomis_Encore]

Got an ad for an AI video generator before this video 💀

[CooperDooper]

I've been trying to figure out how to put my feelings on AI art into words, but I think you've hit the nail on the head here. It's a neat, novel idea, but it's being used for the wrong purposes, and it really should be used to elevate artistry, rather than cut artists out.

On the upside, you can't get AI art to spit out an image that's a 1:1 match for a made-up character that isn't ultra well-known, so as someone who makes my money by drawing peoples' fursonas, I've got less to worry about, myself. 😌👌

[Hiniature_]

Honestly, growing up in a age where AI Art wasn’t even a thing at the time due to the limited technological possibilities during the early 2000’s is something I cherish, I prefer the challenge of hand drawing things when it comes to my creativity. But now in this day of age where slightly complicated things or even the simplest thing can be easily created with a click of a button, and honestly, I’m just going to stick with hand drawn art over this new AI stuff. It feels more accomplishing by going through trial and error when drawing stuff, now this doesn’t mean I hate AI art, I just mildly dislike it. However sadly, AI art is a thing that’s going to stay. Now I said whatever I had to say about this matter. Great job on the video, keep up the great work.

[Mimikyu]

Just discovered your channel and, gotta say, i need more content like yours!!! I love it, very grounded and positive and high quality. Thank you <3

[pubertdefrog]

10:56 agreed, the mindset of those people is like that one meme with the DS

“It prints money” (blissfully ignoring the law of perceived value)

[herisruns]

it's true that the current push for AI art is caused in major part by executives wanting to push out content faster and at a lower price. but i think that's only a part of a much larger and pre-existing problem. because the world is so oversaturated with legacy media today and there's a lot of competition from other artists, it's increasingly difficult to make works that seem genuinely new and unique, and that can capture a wide audience. not knowing of any sure-fire solution to this problem, big studios have focused on making their art more and more visually detailed with every year. it's turned into a sort of arms race to create the most visually stunning art. this is most clearly visible in anime. take at any major anime from the past 10 years, and compare it to a similar anime from before. the lighting and backgrounds and fine details are usually much more complex than they ever had to be, in the newer anime. this sounds fine in theory. the viewers get a higher quality product in the end. but constant one-upmanship is definitely unsustainable in the long term. japanese animators are extremely overworked, and even then they're often not able to meet expected quotas. the production of "attack on titan" has been stretched over more than 10 years with constant hiatus, because of the insane amount of work that its detailed art style requires. this killed a lot of the hype that the show had early on, and it probably would have been canceled without a proper ending if the manga didn't have such a huge following. any anime that doesn't bring in a net profit in the first season is usually canceled. studios used to be able to take a risk on a less popular property, and fall back on the profits from their most successful content when necessary. that's increasingly difficult to do, because every anime production is now a huge undertaking with their hyper detailed art. and there isn't any extra money in the industry to cover all of the extra labor that detailed art requires. there may even be less, now that consumption has shifted from TV and blu-ray discs to streaming. AI art seems like a convenient way to cut straight to the hyper detailed art that consumers now expect, with far less labor. even if the technology isn't 100% there just yet. if nothing else, the novelty of AI as a technology may be able to capture the attention of a certain demographic. but maybe this isn't even a real problem that animation studios are so eager to solve. maybe viewers can be content to view anime that's just slightly less visually detailed. we were fine watching flat characters with minimal lighting in the early 2000s, before all of the fancy digital effects that made more detailed art possible. if animation studios would just focus less on the finer details, they'd be able to produce anime of reasonably high quality with far less "crunch" in their process, and they wouldn't have to use any shortcuts, including AI. "working for a god in a godless world" is a rare example of a recent anime that intentionally uses less labor-intensive animation styles, and it's gained a sizable following for its unique look

[kinfmin]

If AI is the future, the future looks boring.

[ketchup]

we human artists gotta come together and create art so good that we screw over ai, like that one episode of spongebob where he was better than the krabby patty making machine

[VaguelyVisual]

ai "art" is kinda like ordering food instead of making it yourself

except it wasnt made by a person, and it all taste the same if you eat it blind

[Just_a_commenter]

I always value the input from artists on AI 'Art', so departure from typical content sphere or not, I'm here for it.

My opinion is that AI has a place as a tool to _assist_ artists, but I don't see the substance or value in taking every piece of art on the internet, putting it in a blender, and then siphoning out enough to cobble together an image that you like.

[stephaniegiacco]

1:08 We know what you did there


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[masterblaster]

9:55 This was the perfect clip for this moment. Wise choice

[Blue_Skies_Ahead]

6:14 thank you, I really needed to hear that

[enderwisper]

As an artist AI art terrifies me. I was always afraid that I could lose potential Work end the AI art would throwaway years of hard work, But I don’t think it would ever replace actual artists.