This discussion is at least as old as photoshop, probably as old as art itself.
What people tend to forget is that it doesn't matter much what process was used to obtain the image. The intent and final result are what matters.
And that is where AI images, for the most part, fall totally flat. The end results are ugly, uncanny, derivative or boring. The last two characteristics are inherent to the medium. By the nature of their training sets and their underlying math, LLMs always return the most common characteristics of the training data. And because they are so automated, artistic intent is often lost.
But with AI there is an even bigger problem: The whole moral dimension of all AI companies stealing other peoples work to sell as their product. Which in itself justifies boycotting all those products.
March 26, 2024, 3:37 p.m. - Timer
This discussion is at least as old as photoshop, probably as old as art itself. What people tend to forget is that it doesn't matter much what process was used to obtain the image. The intent and final result are what matters. And that is where AI images, for the most part, fall totally flat. The end results are ugly, uncanny, derivative or boring. The last two characteristics are inherent to the medium. By the nature of their training sets and their underlying math, LLMs always return the most common characteristics of the training data. And because they are so automated, artistic intent is often lost. But with AI there is an even bigger problem: The whole moral dimension of all AI companies stealing other peoples work to sell as their product. Which in itself justifies boycotting all those products.