IMO. Solution without a problem yet.
I personally think AI art looks like shit too. Part of the joy of art is knowing that a human created this and trying to unpack after around that like what were the influences, what were they trying to convey. AI will never be able to explain WHY it produced something in a satisfying way. In fact, from what I can tell, it's almost IMPOSSIBLE for anyone to be able to explain how a LLM generated the answer at it did. (but I could be wrong). My response to most AI art is "wow those colors are really rich" or "this is so creepy."
On the margins I think there could be some efficiency gains (stuff like "take this complicated piece of data and summarize it for human consumption") that could change industries, but I think at this point it's mostly vaporware.
And if general AI is ever let out into the wild god save us all.
Mar 1, 2024
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Why not go through the process of blending those images yourself? Why not use process as an experiment? Why AI? What part are you playing? What makes it yours?
I think AI is impersonal. I think it is unethical when it has relied on the theft of actual peopleâs actual physical (and because of the nature of art, often time emotional) labor. I also think it is unnecessary in creating art. I also think the environmental impacts are atrocious. I also think AIâs biggest supporters are being maliciously ignorant because itâs a fun new toy.
Is it ease? Is it efficiency? People talk about accessibility as if children donât use crayons and stickers! As if graffiti artists donât use postal labels as sticker, as if sand mandalas donât exist, as if cardboard and tape arenât in over abundance.
Apr 15, 2025
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you can do whatever you want, but if you really want to hear my opinion on it... at best, ai-art is demoralizing to actual human beings and creates novelty slop that vaugely looks like an art piece, while not harboring any skill in using it. and theres nothing wrong with not wanting to make art fir the skill of it, though. but at worst, it's an environmental and economic disaster, a predatory business model to consumers and customers of AI, and a great way for businessmen to try and take creativity away from us to turn us into cogs in the machine. it's built off of the stolen work of artists who already struggled to make a living, now forced out by a tool that's turned on them with their own work. it can help make propaganda that is virtually unidentifiable, turn victims into deepfakes, and generally evil we have yet to see. and that's just the image side of things, but the cons of all types of ai models overlap.
I've had to watch people throw away their lifelong dreams because of this garbage. it's no coincidence elonely muskrat and every ceo you can think of are obsessed with it - it's a perverse business tool.
I wouldn't mind coexisting with it if it wasn't out to get me. but it is.
I also feel like it's the reason nobody makes fun photobashes or random photoshops anymore. it will never fully phase out human art but I think it's starting to take over the photography world, especially commercially. I'm sick of looking up real places and animals and sorting through fake slop im being told is real.
Apr 14, 2025
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My #official take is that AI art generally on the whole fucking sucks. 90% of it is uninteresting slop content by brain dead techbros who have no knowledge of art or why we value it.
HOWEVER!!! There is one use case where I think using AI in your art can actually elevate the work, and thatâs if the art itself is in some way trying to say something about AI.
Luckily, thereâs actually a lot of things to say about AI â referencing it in your work pretty firmly places it in the current cultural landscape in super powerful way.
Some examples (note that these all have pretty nihilistic / downright dystopian outlooks on modern society, maybe thatâs also imporyant):
- Vegynâs album under the Headache pseudonym
- some of the scenes in Conner OâMalleyâs 103 fever short
Jan 16, 2025
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