The artistic implications aside, my problem with AI is entirely aesthetic, really. AI āartā is terrible, I wouldnāt even consider it art, really, thereās no process, no intention besides inputs and outputs. Most AI art seems to be really dull and related to weird fixations, while Iām lucky to be in a field that AI canāt replicate (which can at times feel written by a machine), Iām immensely annoyed by it and will be as it likely becomes more prevalent to avoid paying artists
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Ok so forget about the environmental issues (if you say other art forms do damage as well?), forget about the stealing from other artists (itās true a lot of great art involves theft), forget about it being impersonal (a lot of good art is), forget about what is and isnāt artā hereās why I think maybe you shouldnāt bother with ai image generation:Ā
Youāre unlikely to learn or create anything new, youāre just rearranging the internetās entrails. Making more chaff thatās dead on arrival and fed back into the AI meat grinder, to be torn apart and reassembled by someone else.Ā
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.Ā
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 wonāt discover anything in this creation, itās 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 againstā just someone elseās algorithm. At best you are a curator of images, or an illustrator whose products have little utility. Really just a cog in someone elseās 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 youāll make better, more interesting art without it.Ā Just because something feels inevitable doesnāt mean itās not a choice
Apr 16, 2025
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Iām sure in the right hands ai can be used to create stunning art. True, that art will somewhere deep down be based on other works used to train the ai, but right now I donāt think I care. People can use any tools they like to express themselves.
Every medium is used to create bad art and to create good art. Most things people make with generative ai will be bad. But those people just as easily could be taking bad photos, painting bad paintings, carving bad marble statues or anything else.
AI is going to make all kinds of things worse for everyone (unless it just flames out - read Ed Zitron about that), but creative art is the least of it.
Jan 13, 2025
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