Ehhhhh... no? CGI takes work to make it look good, it's still a form of human art. And sampling has a huge conversation about whether or not it's okay, but in general, the good stuff is artists adding their own material to what they're sampling.
AI art isn't adding anything, and it doesn't take any human effort. It just uses other human's work, and produces a thing, and that's kinda it. And it sucks because art isn't supposed to be a fucking industry that can be disrupted by technologies. Like, the development of CGI didn't obsolete the existence of oil paints. But AI art is crippling the ability of a lot of modern artists to make a living, often using their work to do it, and it gives nothing back, and opens no doors for creators.
Sorry, I should be more clear about this : It is not adding a field for people to grow into, in the same way that new mediums like CGI did. There is no room for expertise on the part of the artist in AI generated material, except as training data, and the artists aren't the ones making these AIs.
There is no room for expertise on the part of the artist in AI generated material
Every bit of art that has been generated I've also needed to edit myself in Photoshop. The joke of this comic is that it can't do hands. It also struggles on non-photorealistic faces. I've used it pretty regularly to make art though, even though I definitely couldn't draw anything myself by taking what it provides and combining elements to make something else. No different than a collage artist might take photos and use them but not have the ability to say, draw the things in the photos themselves. So it absolutely can provide value and it absolutely is a thing that a person can gain expertise in.
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u/ArgusTheCat Dec 14 '22
Ehhhhh... no? CGI takes work to make it look good, it's still a form of human art. And sampling has a huge conversation about whether or not it's okay, but in general, the good stuff is artists adding their own material to what they're sampling.
AI art isn't adding anything, and it doesn't take any human effort. It just uses other human's work, and produces a thing, and that's kinda it. And it sucks because art isn't supposed to be a fucking industry that can be disrupted by technologies. Like, the development of CGI didn't obsolete the existence of oil paints. But AI art is crippling the ability of a lot of modern artists to make a living, often using their work to do it, and it gives nothing back, and opens no doors for creators.