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People Hate AI Art

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Re: People Hate AI Art

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post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The seems in contradiction with AI content on Instagram and Facebook that get a disturbing amount of likes from real people.

>real people. Are you sure?

Yes. I have relatives who are constantly forwarding me "funny" AI videos. This is happening all across the US and probably the world.

Re: People Hate AI Art

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Good article, I think most hero images are pointless in the first place, so having them diffusion-generated now feels like a signal to just not read the piece. It goes from "look at this irrelevant image" to "look at this irrelevant image, and I have bad taste by the way!"

I'm reading "people don't care so it doesn't matter" in the replies, in that case can we agree to just drop all unneeded illustrations altogether when it comes to technical articles?

Re: People Hate AI Art

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

the post was not written by human :) “humans, on average…” lol (hallucinated) ai hard at work

Is that an AI tell? I'm only familiar with em dashes and "it's not X, it's Y." I promise I'm a human being.

sorry mate, I was just joking :)))

I would back that claim though with some citation cause like in my “circle” (personal and professional) nothing but big fans of AI art

Re: People Hate AI Art

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post #47

Corrected: a certain type of very loud and very online person in your audience hates AI art and thinks less of you for using it. But that doesn't matter, because the game theory they outlined is directionally right. The cohort of people who hate AI art is relatively small. But the cohort of people who love it is even smaller. People can generally spot it, and most people are indifferent to it. Having said that: I thi…

Anecdata, but among real people I know and touched the subject, nobody has anything positive to say about GenAI "art".

And in online communities, most often people just call it "AI slop" and express fatigue. It's very different form a brief period when people were excited by midjourney-generated images. I believe it just faded off just like any novelty.

Re: People Hate AI Art

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post #123

People hate AI compositions, especially from a publication. There are many valid uses for AI image generators. My nieces and I have a blast coming up with stories and illustrating them with generated images. It is even better when they hallucinate an extra finger or ear, we can work it into the story. I also like to use AI as a sort of filter on pictures that I took. Make a photo look like a drawing, for example. It…

Honestly the blowback against AI in "art" feels overblown to me, but I'm not someone that's actually appreciative of art in general (I don't visit art exhibits etc) However, to understand their viewpoint you only need to think about what art originally meant: it is something with which the artist tries to convey something. It is - in is purest form - an expression of another person. This is somewhat offset by "art" a…

Well stated summary of the problem, but I don't understand why it is overblown. The human expression in art and the skill that it took are where it draws its value and beauty. If you change art so fundamentally that it reflects neither of those things, it is the end of art as we know it. It is not just the artists who are speaking out against it but people who love art. That's not everyone, which is understandable.

Edit: I think I misunderstood your intent, my original comment did raise this question. It happens that I'm sympathetic, but I thought the original post was overgeneralizing. I think people actually like generated images and they have their practical uses, they just can't take the place of art.

Re: People Hate AI Art

#150

Especially Indians!

I am genuinely curious what you mean by this. I mean it sounds obvious you are saying that Indians hate AI art, i'm just curious why that group specifically?

(I don't have my finger on the pulse of that nation, i'm afraid)

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