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54 points

The only reason you care is because you’ve been conditioned to attack anything that could harm your income-potential.

Instead of fighting “AI”, how about we fight for a world where artists don’t have to monetarily justify their existence?

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Or maybe artist should be able to not justify their existence monetarily and also not have their art fucking stolen and murdered to generate terrible pseudo art lmao.

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32 points

This. Art is expression. Wtf is AI art expressing?

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16 points

Whatever the artist using the AI tool is trying to express?

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4 points

Art is aesthetic. It can express something but it doesn’t have to.

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What is it that humans are expressing when they are arting?

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4 points

Terrible pseudo art is what you get from hollywood and big music studios right now, for the most part.

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2 points

Nice of you to think AI won’t just lead to even more formulaic stuff, but maybe from different megacorporations.

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3 points

All those poor OCs, dead forever! No human can ever draw them again now that AI ate them!

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23 points

The only reason you care is because you’ve been conditioned to attack anything that could harm your income-potential.

My ‘favorite’ is the argument that replacing jobs is what technology is meant to do.

This isn’t just a job. If I won the lotto tomorrow, if I had billions and billions of dollars and never had to make another cent in my life, I would still be writing. Art is not just a production, it is a form of communication, between artist and audience, even if you never see them.

Writing has always been something like tossing a message in a bottle into a sea of bottles and hoping someone reads it. Even if the arguments that AI can never replace human writing in terms of quality is true, we’re still drowned out by the noise of it.

It really revs up the ol’ doomer instinct in me.

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7 points

Even if the arguments that AI can never replace human writing in terms of quality is true, we’re still drowned out by the noise of it.

It’s a good point but honestly the internet is mostly just noise and it’s not a problem we’re going to solve. It’s something we have to learn to live with. If you take more than a passing interest in an art, you should be able to find an island in the ocean of noise with like-minded people.

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10 points

That world can’t exist if all the artists get starved out of existence before it comes about.

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5 points

Let’s make it happen today!

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8 points

Okay, go ahead.

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10 points

The issue is, the goal of AI companies and AI believers is the replacement of artists. They see more traditional forms of art as obsolete. Especially the AI believers, who do everything they can (including trying to generate fake art progresses, and entering art contests with AI generated images) to “disrupt the art community”.

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6 points

The only way this could work is communism, but I don’t think tech bros will call for that any time soon.

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