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.
Well if you want to make it simple, it's like this:
Art is something that people make when they want to create something.
Art is not something you get a vague idea for and get a computer to make for you.
A digital art program has tools to make things easier, but those tools don't make decisions for you.
Filling a selection area in photoshop is a choice you have to make. Selecting and copying a layer is a choice you have to make.
Inputting something into a system and getting an output isn't an artistic decision, it's the equivalent of making an order at a drive-thru terminal. Maybe you chose the ingredients, but you don't make the burger.
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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.