Replying to ringo

for the youngins that do ai art:

if us old folks dont get it, its because we used to dream stuff like this and then write it down or tell other people about it, otherwise there's no point in sharing such an interesting concept.

although this is further complicated by the fact that you basically just told an open API a few words you were thinking of, and picked the first thing it generated that made you happy to look at.

as a lifelong artist, humbly this is basically terrifying, because people will slowly (or very quickly) lose the ability to daydream and create things, in their own minds eyes.

because this will seem so fantastic it will generationally affect a large percentage of people. who will be totally unable to do anything or imagine anything, without a computer. at some point.

That's where this thing is headed, but more importantly ai exists to get a demon in every person, by their unwitting participation. More on that another time, though.
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Bc1qt1 2y ago

I think it’s not going to be so bad. Because it’s just another tool at the end of the day.

Yes people are going to take shortcuts, yes there will be the lazy people who will feed a prompt and call themselves artists.

But I think this tech is going to help create a new kind of artist while enabling the old artist to do things faster. Just like how photoshop created a new kind of digital artist and didn’t necessarily get rid of the artist who painted on a canvass. This will be have a similar effect.

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ringo 2y ago

thats rather optimistic. :) i think its going to dillute the value of real art to the point where nobody will pay for it.

old artists that are actually artists wont want to use ai in general, because it doesn't feel like art, it feels like doing an exercise in button pushing. until you really create something, and do it over and over again, slowly refining your skill, there isn't mastery.

and until you get that mastery in your craft, you dont .. you dont need to take shortcuts, you just know how to do it, and that road was long, and had many trials of learning upon it, and it was earned.

ai art isn't earned. it's just some fancy looking BS a computer spat out.

however, there are some things that are incredibly hard to operate, that might appeal to that aspect, but it's still demonic technology, and i'll be happy to see it go the way of the dodo, worldwide, as soon as possible.