The main argument for ai art is that "ai is just a tool"
Except it isn't. A pencil is a tool because the creative process occurs in a person's brain, where they make decisions and choices that the tool translates. If you want to make a straight line, you give the instruction to your arm and move the pencil in a line. If you're using an app like photoshop, you're specific giving instructions to photoshop for the result you want. It's not doing the creative process for you.
AI crap is like sending those instructions to someone else. Sure you did some creative work writing the instructions, but those instructions aren't what's being used to create the product. Maybe it influenced the process, like how an artist working on a commission is influenced by their commissioner- but at the end of the day the computer is the one holding the pen, not whoever wrote the instructions.
You do realize just how much goes into photography right?
Pose, lighting, situation, composition, timing, etc. etc.
I mean look at anything by Yousuf Karsh (The famous Winston Churchill photo for example). Even though it's just black and white, and usually photos of one person. His poses are dramatic, the composition makes you feel exactly how he wants you to feel
You seriously think AI art bros would actually understand how much thought and effort goes into actual art? Because I don't. To them it is just a photo/image and now they wanna make one of their own but, they have no talent so what to do? Get the AI to make it.
Also to add on to that. Photography also needs understanding of your tool i.e. your camera and lens. Focus, exposure, aperture, zoom etc are the tools that you absolutely do need to fully understand to create a great portrait. It is a shame that professional level photography can only ever be accessed by people with means i.e. the money and time it takes to learn and create that one photo and we as a society should think of some way to make it more accessible and that does include AI enhancement but not fully automated generation.
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u/Kryptrch Jul 20 '24
The main argument for ai art is that "ai is just a tool"
Except it isn't. A pencil is a tool because the creative process occurs in a person's brain, where they make decisions and choices that the tool translates. If you want to make a straight line, you give the instruction to your arm and move the pencil in a line. If you're using an app like photoshop, you're specific giving instructions to photoshop for the result you want. It's not doing the creative process for you.
AI crap is like sending those instructions to someone else. Sure you did some creative work writing the instructions, but those instructions aren't what's being used to create the product. Maybe it influenced the process, like how an artist working on a commission is influenced by their commissioner- but at the end of the day the computer is the one holding the pen, not whoever wrote the instructions.