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Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" (futurism.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on copyrighted material without the original artists' permission. And that's without getting into AI's negative drag on the environment.

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[–] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (23 children)

If a computer auto generating music isn’t called a musician, or a robot tossing a football isn’t called an athlete, then a person making a picture with a computer isn’t an artist. No matter how badly that person wants to be called one.

[–] Dud@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I just call the people in my Discord who generate AI images AI Handlers because to me it's like getting a half trained unruly animal to do what you want. That being said when they take requests for character art for tabletop games they put out some good stuff. It's just a tool to be used and it often takes an experienced handler to get what you want out of it.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd be perfectly fine being called an AI Handler over an artist, its an apt descriptor and I'm not doing this to trick anybody. One of the top posts on all today is about true luxuries, and one of them is the Luxury of being able to fully express ones self, to which this new tool has provided to me faaar more than any tool previous. If I'm sharing my creations its because I'm excited to have a visual representation and I want to share it with those interested, I'm not trying to downplay the skillset of other artists, nor do I care about cred. I'm just excited to finally have an outlet for my creativity that doesnt require me to devote years of my life to learning specific skills before I'm able to start doing what I actually want to do, which is to be creative

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't really think you're expressing much of yourself with an AI, especially creativity. I mean all the power to you if you think so, but you can't really claim to be anything more than a slightly less cumbersome Google image search bot.

Basically you give "search terms" and then use your judgement to pick and choose. There's very little expression and a whole lot curating of someone else's work. I guess if you think making music playlist is an expression of creativity, sure it'll qualify. But that's some shallow expression of a personality when it comes to art. Might want to phrase that differently.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Lmao, I could't give less of a shit what you think about my own feelings of creative expression. Have a nice day!

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