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The skill gap was what made it valuable. There is not that much value in flooding everyone with generated images that have no story, no person behind it, no eff

The skill gap was what made it valuable. There is not that much value in flooding everyone with generated images that have no story, no person behind it, no effort, no reason to exist, out of place. “Art” is as much about the final image as it is about the person who made it, why she made it and how she got there. Also there is pretty dystopian angle because these tools balantly stole all the work of artists by “learning” on their work (without pemission). Calling it learning is too nice we all know its just huge visual pattern copy mashup paste machine. People are not gonna invent with this - they just add name of artist they like to the prompt and get to call that their work. Its not liberation - its exploitation. Its gonna destroy peoples lives by making their hard earned skills obsolete. Then again it probably wont be so bad. Artists wont disappear and people wont suddenly become artists just because they can write into prompt.

desindol 4y ago
You in 1894: Why does no one think about all the horses and stable boys. The value of art is also not in the hours you put into creating it it's about the idea behind it and how it's conveyed. Artists are also always stealing especially concept artists the only thing to say is "photobashing". You talk like someone who has absolutely no idea how the sausage is made.
- omnimus 4y ago
  Yes, yes and invention of camera will kill painters. Sure everybody knows this. But there is important difference between someone stealing and some algorithm copy replicating anything from the past in instant. One is a remix that brings something new (even if author doesn't want) the other in static its conservation. It will create side effects that will impact our (visual) culture. But who knows what those will be.
  - desindol 4y ago
    You must have missed the last 50 years with that much fear of change. Yikes.
    - omnimus 4y ago
      Not sure why i deserve so much toxicity. We obviously work in different fields and have different view of what art actually is. No i am not happy to jump on AI bandwagon that will surely mean even faster pace and more precarious working conditions because individuals surely wont reap the benefits of automation. It's easy to not care when you are not affected. None of that mean that i deserve the hate. It's just a different opinion.
      - desindol 4y ago

desindol 4y ago

You in 1894: Why does no one think about all the horses and stable boys. The value of art is also not in the hours you put into creating it it's about the idea behind it and how it's conveyed. Artists are also always stealing especially concept artists the only thing to say is "photobashing". You talk like someone who has absolutely no idea how the sausage is made.

omnimus 4y ago
Yes, yes and invention of camera will kill painters. Sure everybody knows this. But there is important difference between someone stealing and some algorithm copy replicating anything from the past in instant. One is a remix that brings something new (even if author doesn't want) the other in static its conservation. It will create side effects that will impact our (visual) culture. But who knows what those will be.
- desindol 4y ago
  You must have missed the last 50 years with that much fear of change. Yikes.
  - omnimus 4y ago
    Not sure why i deserve so much toxicity. We obviously work in different fields and have different view of what art actually is. No i am not happy to jump on AI bandwagon that will surely mean even faster pace and more precarious working conditions because individuals surely wont reap the benefits of automation. It's easy to not care when you are not affected. None of that mean that i deserve the hate. It's just a different opinion.
    - desindol 4y ago