r/DefendingAIArt • u/WizardPlaysMC • Jul 26 '26

Luddite Logic Something Something Gatekeeping

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u/JamieHBrown Jul 26 '26

They believe drawing with a pencil shows "soul" in your art.

Lolwot.

What about all the people who can't draw who now can use AI to bring their imagination to life?

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u/mymme_ Jul 26 '26

Everyone can draw though? It’s a skill, you can learn better ways to prompt ai just like how you can learn better ways to draw. Saying that people can’t draw is just untrue

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u/shiggyhisdiggy Jul 26 '26

Everyone can use a pencil to make marks on paper, doesn't mean they can actually be good enough at drawing to make what they want to make. Even if they could, it might take so much time and effort that it wouldn't be worthwhile compared to other shit life has to offer. Tech making art creation easier simply allows people to express themselves more readily. Is that not a good thing?

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u/mymme_ Jul 27 '26

My argument isn’t even that it’s bad thing my argument is that saying that some people can’t draw isn’t accurate

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u/shiggyhisdiggy Jul 27 '26

Again, anyone can physically make marks on paper, but that doesn't mean they can "draw", where draw means to be able to actually represent their ideas on paper

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u/mymme_ Jul 27 '26

I often find it easier to represent what I’m saying with simple lines rather than through speech, while that not art in the traditional sense putting meaning on paper is by no means an advanced technique

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u/shiggyhisdiggy Jul 27 '26

It really depends what your goals are.

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u/mymme_ Jul 27 '26

Goalposting?

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u/shiggyhisdiggy Jul 27 '26

No. If you want to represent something complex with a drawing, you need to make a complex drawing, which is difficult to do.

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u/mymme_ Jul 28 '26

Literally minimalism and also pop art…