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Yeah, I've noticed a lot of "AI artists" suddenly pop up out of nowhere. As far as I can see, they're just typing a prompt into Stable Diffusion or DALL-E and

by eplm 4y ago

Yeah, I've noticed a lot of "AI artists" suddenly pop up out of nowhere. As far as I can see, they're just typing a prompt into Stable Diffusion or DALL-E and picking a nice image. It's lazy, talentless, and demeans the actual artists whose work was stolen to train these models.

bestcoder69 4y ago
And not to mention, fun!
- cableshaft 4y ago
  How dare something be fun. Everything must be dour serious business at all times.
Art9681 4y ago
We all stand on the shoulders of giants. I imagine the first person to carve a stick figure into a rock impressed some folks. Soon enough, the entire village experimented with carving figures into rocks. The smart ones mimicked the techniques of the good ones, and made it better. Soon, the village was flooded with various artworks of stick figures, some more intricate than others. Some had wobly lines, some lines as straight as a ruler. Eventually the expectations changed. No longer was the village impressed with stick figures. A distinction had to be made between the average stick figure carvers and the good ones. They called them "artists". Eventually someone figured out how to add color. The cycle repeats and expectations changed, the average distinguished from the talented. No longer was drawing a stick figure without color considered art. To be an artist, you had to use color. Then someone showed up with a brush, then Photoshop, then Stable Diffusion. In the year 2023, expectations changed, yet again. And the average were separated from the talented, and the best prompt writers were considered artists. In the year 2040...
- bakugo 4y ago
  Nobody is carving stick figures into rocks here. They're pressing a button on a machine that someone else built that carves stick figures into a rock for them. Saying "best prompt writer" is like saying "best button presser", there's nothing impressive about it.
  - Geee 4y ago
    Yet, only 0.01% of these button pressers are in a different league from all the other button pressers. Everyone can use a paintbrush, but that isn't enough to be an artist.
speedgoose 4y ago
It’s another form of art that is more accessible. It requires less work and perhaps less skills to get a descent result but you have more skilled people. I find this event similar than the photography. Oil painters did less portraits but you still have oil painters today. And many people did art using photography.

by eplm 4y ago

bestcoder69 4y ago

And not to mention, fun!

cableshaft 4y ago
How dare something be fun. Everything must be dour serious business at all times.

Art9681 4y ago

We all stand on the shoulders of giants. I imagine the first person to carve a stick figure into a rock impressed some folks. Soon enough, the entire village experimented with carving figures into rocks. The smart ones mimicked the techniques of the good ones, and made it better. Soon, the village was flooded with various artworks of stick figures, some more intricate than others. Some had wobly lines, some lines as straight as a ruler. Eventually the expectations changed. No longer was the village impressed with stick figures. A distinction had to be made between the average stick figure carvers and the good ones. They called them "artists". Eventually someone figured out how to add color. The cycle repeats and expectations changed, the average distinguished from the talented. No longer was drawing a stick figure without color considered art. To be an artist, you had to use color. Then someone showed up with a brush, then Photoshop, then Stable Diffusion. In the year 2023, expectations changed, yet again. And the average were separated from the talented, and the best prompt writers were considered artists. In the year 2040...

bakugo 4y ago
Nobody is carving stick figures into rocks here. They're pressing a button on a machine that someone else built that carves stick figures into a rock for them. Saying "best prompt writer" is like saying "best button presser", there's nothing impressive about it.
- Geee 4y ago
  Yet, only 0.01% of these button pressers are in a different league from all the other button pressers. Everyone can use a paintbrush, but that isn't enough to be an artist.

speedgoose 4y ago

It’s another form of art that is more accessible. It requires less work and perhaps less skills to get a descent result but you have more skilled people. I find this event similar than the photography. Oil painters did less portraits but you still have oil painters today. And many people did art using photography.