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Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

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Re: Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

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If you give it the year's headlines and today's newspaper and and ask for a picture that's a social commentary on some current affair, how is that not art? And you didn't prompt it any more than commissioning a piece, or making a thematic suggestion to a painter friend. You may not like its art, and it may not come up with some whole new original style, but that doesn't mean it isn't making art in known styles. TFA i…

Art is an act of human expression.

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If you give it the year's headlines and today's newspaper and and ask for a picture that's a social commentary on some current affair, how is that not art? And you didn't prompt it any more than commissioning a piece, or making a thematic suggestion to a painter friend. You may not like its art, and it may not come up with some whole new original style, but that doesn't mean it isn't making art in known styles. TFA i…

Art is an act of human expression.

Humans express themselves through tools.

Re: Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

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Artists have been spending decades redefining art to broaden it as much as possible, to the point where it seems to be defined now as anything that makes you feel something. It sure seems like AI art is making some people feel something alright.

Re: Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Art is an act of human expression.

Humans express themselves through tools.

Sure. And no one is arguing like "does a paintbrush make art" "does a camera make art." I'm not saying people can't use AI as a tool to make art I'm saying AI can't make art.

Re: Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

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„AI“ (a stupid term to begin with) is just a tool like any other - you can use it to make art. Of course it’s not going to be creative on its own - it obviously is not intelligent. But for me comfyui is an incredibly cool tool to be creative. Such a boring topic after all - all the noise it attracts won’t amount to much once people understand this technology

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Re: Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art

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„AI“ (a stupid term to begin with) is just a tool like any other - you can use it to make art. Of course it’s not going to be creative on its own - it obviously is not intelligent. But for me comfyui is an incredibly cool tool to be creative. Such a boring topic after all - all the noise it attracts won’t amount to much once people understand this technology

I think it's an interesting debate: what is this thing we've made? And what does its existence teach us about ourselves?

You're right that just going yes it is - no it isn't isn't so interesting, but this mainly stems from the fact that "intelligence" is a poorly defined, pre-scientific term. And really most times you're talking about about whether some X is a Y, you're not so much talking about X as about your definition of Y.

I think the thing is, with LLMs/Generative AI we see some aspects of ourselves, but not enough that we can accept that it is fully like us, hence the resistence. To me, the answer is clear: what is usually called intelligence is actually several different things, of which whatever it is an LLM does is one.

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