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This sounds overtly negative and cynical, I wonder why that is? These are basically first generation open image generation AI services and your post sadly remin

This sounds overtly negative and cynical, I wonder why that is? These are basically first generation open image generation AI services and your post sadly reminds me of the "get off my lawn attitude" of an old grampa who doesn't understand why cars aren't made of steel anymore despite all the information being out there and easily accessible. Criticism is fine and certainly warranted. Discussion and disagreement is encouraged - that's what makes us democrats after all. I don't disagree with images of Midjourney having a distinct look either, or things getting repetitive, for example. But what does > Was certainly cool for a few minutes though. even mean in the face of Midjourney running a bigger Discord server than Minecraft (!) and heaps of articles appearing how low hanging fruit in digital art are obviously subject to be replaced by these apps in the foreseeable future?

hef19898 4y ago
There might or might not be a market for AI art (who knows with art, everything people consider desireable has a legitimate market), I don't know because I don't have the slightest clue about art besides "I like that". I am sure so that stuff created by humans will always something specual about it that a soulless machine (heck, that sounds like something straight outbof Terminator) cannot reproduce. I think there will always be artists, collectors and hobby artists pursueing manual creation of things, maybe even more so the more AI / digital art we have, even if as a simple counter weight and outlet of creativity.
rightbyte 4y ago
> cars aren't made of steel anymore Aren't they? Aluminium cars are still quite rare right?
oldstrangers 4y ago
It's a great service, and it'll do really interesting stuff. From an artistic perspective though, it's really bottom of the barrel for me. Maybe that'll change given enough time and some people doing some really cutting edge stuff utilizing multiple mediums. But right now, it's just soulless, and that's a good thing for human artists.

hef19898 4y ago

There might or might not be a market for AI art (who knows with art, everything people consider desireable has a legitimate market), I don't know because I don't have the slightest clue about art besides "I like that". I am sure so that stuff created by humans will always something specual about it that a soulless machine (heck, that sounds like something straight outbof Terminator) cannot reproduce. I think there will always be artists, collectors and hobby artists pursueing manual creation of things, maybe even more so the more AI / digital art we have, even if as a simple counter weight and outlet of creativity.

rightbyte 4y ago

> cars aren't made of steel anymore Aren't they? Aluminium cars are still quite rare right?

oldstrangers 4y ago

It's a great service, and it'll do really interesting stuff. From an artistic perspective though, it's really bottom of the barrel for me. Maybe that'll change given enough time and some people doing some really cutting edge stuff utilizing multiple mediums. But right now, it's just soulless, and that's a good thing for human artists.