#i feel that the current usage of Midjourney and the like fail to meet that standard | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

discountalien-pancake · 2 years ago

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I was so close to including this sentiment in the original post but didnt bc i didn’t want my main point to get lost—but absolutely, hard agree. People are fooled by the complexity of the generated images, but these programs and algorithms fundamentally fail to meet the requirements of “intelligence.” They lack the intelligence of a three-year old child with a crayon. They have less intelligence than a bowerbird or pufferfish.

True AI does not exist yet. It may never exist. What we have right now with things like Midjourney is just really fancy data processors. All they do is sort images so that they can be sampled, and then assemble those samples in a way that fulfills the user prompt.

There was a man a while back who infamously “wrote” a novel by plagiarizing dozens of works and assembling them into a plot. This is what these programs do, except that they do not even possess the creative vision of the “author.” They can’t come up with their own ideas, and even if you programmed them to self-generate prompts, at best what you have is a glorified RNG pixel-sampler.

I think we need to stop calling it AI “art.” AI images are not art. The people who use it are not artists. Don’t give it that kind of validation. They are AI-generated images and art thieves users.

#there is somewhat famously in art circles a man who built a robot #that would create art in his own style #and it is continued making pieces after he died #it’s up for debate whether those pieces qualify as art #but nevertheless they are attributed to the man who built the machine #and not the machine itself #bc the machine and algorithm were simply tools #but the difference between that machine and these art thefit softwares #is that the artist put a piece of himself into it. he imbued it with his style. he built it to physically replicate his brushwork.#he designed the algorithm it ran on #in someways the machine itself was the artwork #i feel that the current usage of Midjourney and the like fail to meet that standard #they just automate plagiarism #perhaps if you train a completely blankslate software solely on your own existing pieces you could then call the generated images your art #but then you would quickly realize the limitations of these programs #they are only successful at fooling us because the sheer volume of samples they are able to pull from

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