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[Rusty Creates] 'Artists' (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Artistry is not simply the assembly of images. And good artistry requires intention and expression, typically in order to communicate a novel idea.

How does that refute my statement? I never claimed an assembly of images = art.

How long do I need to analyze a piece of material to determine whether it is a real message or a procedural generation? How do I discern real conversations from automated prompts my partner never meant to send? How do I manage my own response to a deluge of clumsy attempts at manipulation?

This isn’t an issue of AI content being “art” or not. This is an issue of AI content being industrially generated spam content.

I don't think even the people who unironically call themselves "AI artists", as delusional as they are, would defend using AI to manipulate people or generate ad spam with it. (maybe some of them would)

This stuff doesn’t exist without commercialization precisely because of the volume of material and resources necessary to make it work.

I think again you are missing what my point was. I was talking about this at an individual usage level. A person could load up a local model as is and generate some stuff for use at home. No transactions occurred.

As for how generative AI got to this point, I don't think even then commercialization was an inevitable requirement for its existence. That's how it played out to a certain degree, but technology frequently is created by massive government grants historically. The internet itself is an example of this.