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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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The similarities between marcel DUCHAMP's The Fountain and ai art.

Thinking about the readymades today after listening to the Lonely Palette podcast (liked) and how one of it's interpretations is art without an artist, and I wonder if it's prophetic in the sense that AI art could be described as such. The obvious question of the computer being the artist isn't quite the same because the computer does not possess the skill to create art -- paint, sketch etc. but can quite literally conjure images that have verisimilitude to the original. Moreover, in the anthropocentric context, AI art is pretty much a 'readymade' in a sense, though we do have to feed the generative model certain data for it to work on. And yet, it cannot be called the skill of making the image. Just a thought. It's certainly not perfect or academically sound, really.

@thejoywrite

Dec 15, 2024

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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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being a poser has been normalized

I don't know how well this actually answers your initial question, I think it's more of a counterpoint to some of the stuff people have already said, but here it goes. In the past (prior to social media or search engines) specific styles, specialized knowledge, and niche awareness actually took effort. You had to go out into the world and find a scene, be accepted, participate in it, contribute to it, and learn from others with specific knowledge within the specific sub- or counter-cultural scene. It took time, effort, and experience to craft an identity. Nowadays people cycle through various identities and trends like commodities because it takes no effort (they're sold to them by social media algorithms, influencers, brand accounts, etc.). It comes to you in your phone without you ever even having to leave the house or put in the time to discover it or participate in it (you just follow specific people or subscribe). You can be a passive observer or consumer, not an active contributor. As a result, you're not invested or tied down and committed to that core identity. You can cosplay depending on your mood or who you want to momentarily convey yourself as, because it's easy. Essentially, being a poser has become normalized. An identity is now something to be momentarily consumed and affected, rather than grown, built, and developed over time. Granted, it's always been different in regards to "mass" culture and popular trends (both in the past and now). Those are impossible to miss and were always monopolized by specific trend setting institutions, but always by the time it gets to that point, the actual initial counter- or sub-culture that inspired it has already been coopted and has started to disintegrate under the weight and attention of mass consumption.

@ruffianbandwidth

Feb 18, 2024

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When your cat crosses his paws like a perfect little gentleman

It's an action deserving of its own nickname. My cat's name is Gomez, but when he crosses his paws like this, he turns into Hodgkins Plumpersocks.

@ruffianbandwidth

Feb 2, 2024

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Hair is an underappreciated art form (pt. Vii)

Please enjoy my attempt(s) to fill the void. title: "pet; owner" medium: hair

@ruffianbandwidth

Jan 30, 2024