Except ai artists didn’t do anything to help create said art. It’s the equivalent of me messaging a friend and telling him about a story idea I’ve had. Then that friend goes to a library and starts taking bits and pieces from other people’s stories and putting them together. Am I an artist now?
So… yeah. Either we need to stop accepting existing human art forms as art, or we need to accept that when someone writes prose and puts it into a computer, they are expressing theirselves.
Yeah, those are all techniques which require actual work from the artist. Except the last one which is a one off tongue in cheek piece by a guy known for his hyperrealistic work. You go call a museum curator and ask him to smash a pumpkin to put on display. If you can get them to do that for you, then I’ll concede my point and call you and every ai prompter artists.
I’ll write a script that takes AskReddit prompts and sends them automatically to chatgpt and then I post them. Do I become an artist?
Yeah, those are all techniques which require actual work from the artist.
Can you differenciate (explain to me/us) the difference betwee prose, poetry and prompt writing? Also, how is the setup of a local AI different to buying paints?
Prose requires skill. Poetry requires skill. Prompt requires you to press one button ad infinitum until you get a result that you like.
Do you really think typing “give me 1000 paintings with mountains” and then picking 2-3 which you think will sell makes you an artist?
The whole point of art is to take something from yourself and show it to the world. Yeah, there’s generative and randomly generated art, that’s what people do, take things to extremes. But there’s a reason only The first few people to do that are mentioned. Because the rest aren’t creating. If I take a banana and duct tape it to a wall, that’s not art. That’s just me copying someone. That’s what AI art is.
Except ai artists didn’t do anything to help create said art. It’s the equivalent of me messaging a friend and telling him about a story idea I’ve had. Then that friend goes to a library and starts taking bits and pieces from other people’s stories and putting them together. Am I an artist now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(music)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedian_(artwork) (this “artwork” , which has been in museums, involves giving instructions to a curator to tape a banana to a wall.)
So… yeah. Either we need to stop accepting existing human art forms as art, or we need to accept that when someone writes prose and puts it into a computer, they are expressing theirselves.
Yeah, those are all techniques which require actual work from the artist. Except the last one which is a one off tongue in cheek piece by a guy known for his hyperrealistic work. You go call a museum curator and ask him to smash a pumpkin to put on display. If you can get them to do that for you, then I’ll concede my point and call you and every ai prompter artists.
I’ll write a script that takes AskReddit prompts and sends them automatically to chatgpt and then I post them. Do I become an artist?
Can you differenciate (explain to me/us) the difference betwee prose, poetry and prompt writing? Also, how is the setup of a local AI different to buying paints?
Prose requires skill. Poetry requires skill. Prompt requires you to press one button ad infinitum until you get a result that you like. Do you really think typing “give me 1000 paintings with mountains” and then picking 2-3 which you think will sell makes you an artist? The whole point of art is to take something from yourself and show it to the world. Yeah, there’s generative and randomly generated art, that’s what people do, take things to extremes. But there’s a reason only The first few people to do that are mentioned. Because the rest aren’t creating. If I take a banana and duct tape it to a wall, that’s not art. That’s just me copying someone. That’s what AI art is.