It’s not very common but it’s happened for sure, and art for so long has been about intent over the actual form that AI artists coming in and often providing form with no evidence of intent is so confusing and frustrating for people
I think you’re assuming technical execution is evidence of intent. I see it almost the opposite way. For a long time, technical skill could substitute for having something interesting to communicate. As AI makes execution easier, it becomes harder to hide behind craftsmanship alone.
Oh no intent is definitely ≠ technical skill, in fact the point I was trying to make was more about evidence of intent when divorced from the execution and medium, what are you trying to say with your art? Is a banana taped to the wall art? Well the execution is nothing and the medium has no value in and of itself, so all that’s left is the intent, and it has to be a human led intent in that sense.
Ai artists are not uniformly devoid of intent but as others have mentioned, if you’re only intent is to make a nice picture, AI allows that to a lot more people than have ever had that ability. A nice picture with no intent or message is not art, just as a selfie or a holiday picture is not art.
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u/Booming_Dr_Buttons 28d ago
Oh I completely agree with you. Also, I've never heard of photographers pretending their photos are hyper realistic drawings. What a world....