A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
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This is a comic about AI art.
  • Gigasser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I often hear AI enthusiasts say that AI democratized art. As if art weren’t already democratized. Most anyone can pick up a pen, draw, write, type, move a mouse, etc. What AI democratizes in art, is the perception of skill. Which is why when you find out a piece of art was made by inputting some short prompt into a generator, you become disappointed. Because it would be cool, if the person actually had the skill to draw that. Pushing a few buttons to get that, not so much.

    Edit:spelling and spacing

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        6 months ago

        What makes you want to do art? I’m just curious, because I am also someone who has bounced off of attempting to learn to do art a bunch of times, and found tracing unfulfilling (I am abstaining from the question of whether tracing is art, but I do know it didn’t scratch the itch for me).

        For my part, I ended up finding that crafts like embroidery or clothing making was the best way to channel my creative inclinations, but that’s mostly because I have the heart of a ruthless pragmatist and I like making useful things. What was it that caused you to attempt to learn?

  • angrox@feddit.orgEnglish
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    6 months ago

    What a beautiful read. I feel the same about AI art and I remember a longer talk I had with my tattoo artist: ‘I need the money so I will do AI based tattoos my clients bring to me. But they have no soul, no story, no individuality. They are not a part of you.’

    I feel the same.

    Also I like Oatmeal’s reference to Wabi Sabi: The perfection of imperfection in every piece of art.

    • sthetic@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 months ago

      At least by redrawing it, the tattoo artist is injecting (pun intended) some of the human skill and decision-making into it?

      But, ugh! Who would get an AI tattoo?

      And what’s the point? Let’s say I have an idea of a tattoo I want (Jack Sparrow, dressed in a McDonald’s uniform, fighting off a rabid poodle, in the style of Baroque painting), but I cannot draw. So I use AI to render it, how clever!

      But wait - a tattoo artist will be physically drawing it anyway. They know how to develop concepts into sketches, don’t they?

      Just get them to do it! Skip the pointless AI step!