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People Hate AI Art

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Re: People Hate AI Art

#12

I love that silly dinosaur with the emoji thumbs up. Here's the really funny thing. Crafting the prompt to make the original image probably took more time than that crappy mspaint job. I'm being serious, think about it. What are the chances that image came out of the first prompt fed to the AI? How much time did it take to craft the prompt to get that weird uncanny valley trex with a thumbs up? Compare that to googli…

Gemini one shotted it.

Re: People Hate AI Art

#13
post #11

This post is right over the target. I see others posting that the author is out of touch, so here’s a humble +1 to the view that they’re not. Cathartic stuff here

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Aesthetic taste isn’t (inherently) rational? I don’t need a reason to find something ugly, I can just find it ugly.

Re: People Hate AI Art

#14
post #6

It seems like there might be just a small vocal minority that hates AI art. Most people probably don’t care. I bet there were painters in the 1800s who talked about how people hated photographs and how they were uncanny and creepy compared to paintings.

Art without human input is pretty meaningless. It's just pretty colors, even if well executed. I guess there are people that vibe purely on kitch aesthetics. They don't have good taste ofc, but I guess from a capitalist perspective that's a market. People are confused because since the 1960s literally the CIA intervened to disrupt the transmission of meaning in art, because it was a field dominated by "subversives" w…

“Art wasn’t supposed to look nice, it was supposed to make you feel something.”

A weird facsimile of art that has no soul is entirely uninteresting.

Re: People Hate AI Art

#15
I think people who don’t like it genuinely don’t understand it enough to be fascinated by it or have some other issue with it that has nothing to do with the content itself

Re: People Hate AI Art

#18
I think one of the reasons for sloppy images is that non-artistic people don't have the vocabulary to describe images to be produced in interesting styles.

Yes, you can do image-> text on existing styles, but something always gets lost in translation.

Midjourney probably has the best baseline, and --sref is a really easy way to differentiate

Re: People Hate AI Art

#19
Most “AI art” is art like “clip art” is art.

This is a phase that will pass.

There will be (and already are) legitimate artists who leverage AI as a creative tool like any other medium/tool (Photoshop, cameras, paint brushes, etc). I respect them even if others immediately dismiss anything AI related.

Re: People Hate AI Art

#20
Let me propose another alternative.

People generally hate low effort AI slop.

Irrational people hate art made with AI as a tool.

"By invading the territories of art, photography has become art's most mortal enemy." - Said someone who nobody knows because it's a long and dead opinion.

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