#art generation

I don't usually post other folks' work, but a very clever man name Nick Taylor, made this beautiful thing.

I can't even.

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Because we personally, view LLMs and similar AI technology as tools. And I feel that if we're going to hold that stance, then we need to properly apply it unilaterally, and not make any special exceptions about art. Because if you're going to hold an opinion about creative work being sacred, then you need to be able to defend it beyond your own feelings about it.

I have a more than sneaking suspicion that when it comes to the issue of art generation, that a lot of artists are very "lemmings jumping off a cliff" about it. Because that's how the internet is as a whole, and as a social species, we want others around us to like us.

However, I also think that a lot of the feeling of "AI art is bad!" stems from the overall devaluation of the arts as a whole, due to capitalism and the fact that at least as an American millennial, we're very aware of the scarcity of support for the arts in the education system even as we were growing up, which we feel sets people up to also not value art as much unless you're someone who takes an actual interest in it as a hobby and/or livelihood.

If we were to take the phrase AI out of the equation and say, "Physical media is the only REAL ART, not digital! " plenty of people would agree that's nonsensical, because digital painting programs practically eliminate or drastically lower the cost of getting into art. I believe that a lot of people's dislike of AI art generation, my own included, has less to do about AI art being intrinsically bad, and more about the way that it's being used from an ethical standpoint, and fear because due to the devauation of the arts under capitalism, artists livelihoods are now more threatened than ever. Particularly in a rapidly declining economy, where people would love to buy art, but can't afford to because they need to feed themselves, which creates a cyndrical problem.

So, my purpose in making this post is to challenge the concept that AI art generation requires very little skill, and/or that whatever skill is required is so far removed from the skills involved in making art in that they're not relevant. Because that's a big opinion that we've seen, and we struggle to come up with answers to that question ourselves.

Some ideas that we've had are that prompt generation might require a condensation of abstract concepts and ideas that we admittedly, are not good at. Another thought that we had was that it would also require some artistic skill in order to pick out a good end result, which then begs the question: " What would drive people who already have some artistic skill to not draw their own art?" But the answer to that is obvious. Because the internet is full of artist who go, "just a lil sketch uwu" and present something that would have taken someone of our skill level 10+ hours to do. Obviously people all have different skill levels, but when all you ever see is people who say "art is super important, even if you suck, you should draw!" and then only put out these things that look really polished to a beginner artist, or maybe someone like us who's lost a lot of skills, has trouble actually sticking to something to that level of completion, ect, it gets discouraging.

Because we never see anyone of our kind of skill level or in our position, where if we really dedicate time and spend a week or so on something, we might come up with something that we're somewhat happy with, but generally aren't able to spend more than a handful of hours on something before getting either bored by it and have another idea, or where the thing we're drawing just isn't fun anymore, so we stop doing it, and it is where it is.

And so we post it, because somewhere out there, there's a lot of people where our 10-20 min little doodle is the best they can do. And we want to reassure people who feel that AI art is the only way that they can possibly be an artist that it isn't true. And that you don't have to dedicate years of your life towards being an artist if you don't want to. Just draw. Your five min sketch belongs on the internet too, I promise.

In recent years, the intersection of artificial intelligence and art has given rise to a fascinating realm of creativity known as AI art generation. Leveraging advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques, AI art generators have become powerful tools for artists and enthusiasts alike to explore new dimensions of artistic expression. These innovative platforms offer a unique blend of human…