Rec | I KINDA LIKE THE “WITHOUT” DESIGN BETTER

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I KINDA LIKE THE “WITHOUT” DESIGN BETTER

I think the era of AI “art” might be a good reminder 2 the public that realism is not the pentacle of art

@jackslife

Jun 22, 2025

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A.I. ART CAN’T TRANSCEND ANYTHING

Ok so forget about the environmental issues (if you say other art forms do damage as well?), forget about the stealing from other artists (it’s true a lot of great art involves theft), forget about it being impersonal (a lot of good art is), forget about what is and isn’t art— here’s why I think maybe you shouldn’t bother with ai image generation: You’re unlikely to learn or create anything new, you’re just rearranging the internet’s entrails. Making more chaff that’s dead on arrival and fed back into the AI meat grinder, to be torn apart and reassembled by someone else. Nick Cave has a quote about art being great because we create it by pushing against our limitations, failing in ways and overcoming in others. AI is theoretically limitless, and so there is nothing to push against or transcend. Conceiving of some combination of images and making it happen is not a very interesting way of making art to begin with (whether you use AI or do it manually). You won’t discover anything in this creation, it’s just pure execution. Art is informed by its process, the creation of it is intrinsic to the thing itself. You have no medium, no physical or conceptual substance to push against— just someone else’s algorithm. At best you are a curator of images, or an illustrator whose products have little utility. Really just a cog in someone else’s increasingly run-of-the-mill machine, making content indistinguishable from the next guy and training an algorithm to make the world a worse place. Can you use AI as an ingredient in a more complex project? Maybe. But you’ll make better, more interesting art without it. Just because something feels inevitable doesn’t mean it’s not a choice

@slowdazzle

Apr 16, 2025

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More dull than scary

The artistic implications aside, my problem with AI is entirely aesthetic, really. AI “art” is terrible, I wouldn’t even consider it art, really, there’s no process, no intention besides inputs and outputs. Most AI art seems to be really dull and related to weird fixations, while I’m lucky to be in a field that AI can’t replicate (which can at times feel written by a machine), I’m immensely annoyed by it and will be as it likely becomes more prevalent to avoid paying artists