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This is just another step towards ruining art. Trivializing it, if you want. Why should I care for a piece of drawing generated by a computer? I care for someth

by soco 5y ago

This is just another step towards ruining art. Trivializing it, if you want. Why should I care for a piece of drawing generated by a computer? I care for something into which a person put their thoughts and imagination, yes. Even if it's of a lesser quality. But here, why should I be ecstatic? Nice lines, meh, I've seen nice lines thousand times already.

krisoft 5y ago
> Why should I care for a piece of drawing generated by a computer? I care for something into which a person put their thoughts and imagination, yes. Well then you are in good luck. The computers didn’t just spontaneously started creating these images. There is a person who programmed them, debuged (or bugged!) and tweeked the code until it was to their liking and then selected the best results. That’s right, here a computer holds the pen (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively) but it is absolutely a fellow human being who put their thoughts and imagination into the process. > But here, why should I be ecstatic? You don’t have to be. But maybe don’t trivialize other people’s work either.
- soco 5y ago
  I don't trivialize the for sure complex programming work. I just refuse to call the output of the program "art". It's not the same thing at all.
  - krisoft 5y ago
    As is your right. Just as a clarifying question: When you say that you refuse to call it "art" are you talking about the specific 3 pieces used to illustrate the article or the whole concept of an artist using a computer as a tool to create art?
acjacobson 5y ago
The debate over what qualifies as 'real' art is a long and ever-evolving. When photography first emerged people said it could never be real art because it was just a snapshot of the world. Why should I care for an image captured by a machine?
- soco 5y ago
  We might be confusing here "beauty" with "art".
iszomer 5y ago
Do you also treat an artist's work in creating game assets as something that shouldn't be considered art?

by soco 5y ago

krisoft 5y ago

> Why should I care for a piece of drawing generated by a computer? I care for something into which a person put their thoughts and imagination, yes. Well then you are in good luck. The computers didn’t just spontaneously started creating these images. There is a person who programmed them, debuged (or bugged!) and tweeked the code until it was to their liking and then selected the best results. That’s right, here a computer holds the pen (sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively) but it is absolutely a fellow human being who put their thoughts and imagination into the process. > But here, why should I be ecstatic? You don’t have to be. But maybe don’t trivialize other people’s work either.

soco 5y ago
I don't trivialize the for sure complex programming work. I just refuse to call the output of the program "art". It's not the same thing at all.
- krisoft 5y ago
  As is your right. Just as a clarifying question: When you say that you refuse to call it "art" are you talking about the specific 3 pieces used to illustrate the article or the whole concept of an artist using a computer as a tool to create art?

acjacobson 5y ago

The debate over what qualifies as 'real' art is a long and ever-evolving. When photography first emerged people said it could never be real art because it was just a snapshot of the world. Why should I care for an image captured by a machine?

soco 5y ago
We might be confusing here "beauty" with "art".

iszomer 5y ago

Do you also treat an artist's work in creating game assets as something that shouldn't be considered art?