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Most artists want to create beautiful art, it's a form of self expression. Creating art just for outputs sake without adding love seems cold and capitalistic.
So AI enhances and delivers what programmers want, and diminishes what artists want.
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> it's a relatively small but extremely loud contingent of people that have meltdowns over AI-generated images and video. That's not my experience at all . Hacker News is indeed an echo chamber, but sometimes things escape, and discussion of how much people hate AI "art" is becoming increasingly common among my non-tech friends. The earliest example most people point to is the Christmas Coca-Cola commercial.
Do people really hate it, or is it bandwagoning? When OpenAI added image generation to GPT-4o, the "ghiblification" trend took off and most people seemed to enjoy it for memes and jokes. Furthermore I've never really encountered people IRL who hate AI art. The vast majority seem to be neutral towards it.
Now, complete the ritual. Take their place and bring art and culture to your new empire.
Artists correctly realized the threat to their future economic viability and made up reasons it was morally bad. Programmers are currently stuck in an earlier stage, insistent that it can never replace them because [various things].
The style, when it is so obvious, becomes indexed in my mind with low-quality waste-of-time videos.
I blame the tool users, not the tool. The people sloshing these things up onto YouTube are deliberately flinging enough crap at the wall to get clicks. Imagine if they put some oomph into it. Focus on the topic, emphasize main points instead of having a monotonous litany that just sounds like facts strung together without logical connection. Have a point. Thesis, summary, argument, elaboration, summary, map to the thesis, conclusion... Or, if it's fiction, give me three act structure, or seven-point plots.
Otherwise, I'll continue to recognize, and discard what are literally garbage videos, generated by the thousands, to waste our time.
Speak for yourself.
> I reflexively told my wife, “That’s AI—skip it.”
> Yet I’m using AI-created illustrations for my graphic novel
Aren't you worried people will skip your graphic novel?
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Do people really hate it, or is it bandwagoning? When OpenAI added image generation to GPT-4o, the "ghiblification" trend took off and most people seemed to enjoy it for memes and jokes. Furthermore I've never really encountered people IRL who hate AI art. The vast majority seem to be neutral towards it.
All of the two-dozen-or-so people I know closely hate AI art - hate . Not as a tool, e.g. for making images to go with your DnD campaign or whatever - that's great - but rather as replacements for human art. E.g. as blog post images, movie posters, images uploaded to art hubs, etc. They also mostly hate the way it usually looks.
Also, do they hate all AI art, or just art where they can tell because it looks like AI art?