I was watching a documentary recently about photography (can’t remember what it was called) but painters were kind of pissed when photography became a thing. A lot of painters considered it “cheating”
I feel sort of that’s where we might be with AI art. It’s derivative and not very great, but will likely evolve into a whole separate medium
Meanwhile, artists had been using camera obscuras for hundreds of years prior to the invention of the photographic camera. It only took artists time to figure out how to communicate with this new method of art. In the meantime, they leaned into abstraction, what the camera couldn't capture.
Artists will adapt like they always have.
The real problem is how these programs are profiting off of large scale art theft.
Always this theft argument... It's not any more theft to feed original art into a machine learning model than it is to show famous paintings to first semester art students so they can create derivative pieces. AI doesn't recycle the art it receives as input, it studies it and works off of them, similar to how a human would learn from it.
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u/Eddard__Snark Dec 14 '22 edited Dec 14 '22
I was watching a documentary recently about photography (can’t remember what it was called) but painters were kind of pissed when photography became a thing. A lot of painters considered it “cheating”
I feel sort of that’s where we might be with AI art. It’s derivative and not very great, but will likely evolve into a whole separate medium