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baomien · 2 years ago

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there’s a lot of things that bother me about the ai generated art thing and i definitely don’t have anything new to say about it but one thing that does get to me is this attitude of ai people who see the use of ai art as this like….triumphant, smug uprising against those selfish, greedy artists who have squirreled away the Secret Talents of art and how only a Select Blessed Few could make art but no more! now we can ALL make art! when it’s like—art is everywhere. it is so intrinsically human to make art; it is a communal tool. it’s not something you magically become good at, it’s not something you are just born with the ability to do, it’s the simple act of creating with your own hands. the steps it takes to make art is art. every step of improving yourself is art. everyone can all make art without the use of ai; there is no such thing as ‘reclaiming’ art from artists because the potential for art is in everyone.

#there is a lot to say about the fear of not being good at something when you first start out #and how ai art gives people the ability to hop over years of working at improving your skill #but the solution is not to consider the act of writing a sentence and waiting for the half baked frankenstein result of a million people’s #work stitched together to come out and call that your own hard work and call it art #it is the profiting off of people’s love and humanity that they put into their work #i guess what i’m basically saying is that ai generators act as if artists being upset about ai generation is somehow #the reaction of people being ‘dethroned’ from their Sacred Niche #and then they get to act like the heroic underdogs rising up against the wretched artists who lord their artistic skill over people #but really it’s just. Not. anyway i have a big massive headache :{

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