Crypto was stupid from the beginning, NFTs are even more stupid. And people who knew about the tech told everyone so, before the idiots bought the shit to get rugpulled.

Ai art is bad for artists, but not inherently bad bs.

[–] Hobthrob@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (33 children)

AI art is antithetical to art. Art requires artistic intent.

It could have some limited application for very early exploration in commercial art, or perhaps as very limited tools used in existing art software, but generative art is inherently pointless and you need artists to be able to do incremental iterations properly, which is required for real work, which isn't supported yet. I'll sure it'll get better and more convincing, but it's still inherently pointless to use AI for art, since the is supposed to be human expression.

[–] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I love Ai defenders who are ready to tell you what art is and what artists wants. Like maybe instead of recomending this cloud based bullshit app, first try to pick up a pencil actually?

[–] Hobthrob@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I understand the excitement, but it is very much a situation of a layman trying to describe to experts what the expert and all their peers need.

I think it is just because AI has been hyped so much, and has genuinely made such impressive progress that people get swept up by the excitement, and idea that they could make their ideas into something tangible. They just don't know the amount of consideration that goes into translating that.

Right now AI art is like Google translate poems.

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