The question about the legal and moral aspects of training on works of other artists is related, but a different discussion.

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    And not every type of gatekeeping is bad.

    The question about the legal and moral aspects of training on works of other artists is related, but a different discussion.

    Thats not the main issue either. The issue is that Corpos rather prompt an LLM than pay for their artists.

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      If AI can create better content than humans can then people will rather consume that. I don’t see why you should artificially limit this. If someone thinks that AI content is not better then that’s who the audience is for the remaining human creators. AI can already create better looking photos than I can, but it has zero effect on my desire to do photography. I don’t see what the issue is.

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        If AI can create better content than humans can then people will rather consume that.

        it can’t create better content though

        I don’t see why you should artificially limit this.

        LLMS limit themselves already, no need to additionally artifical limit it.

        If someone thinks that AI content is not better then that’s who the audience is for the remaining human creators

        Corpos don’t care, ordinary people don’t care. Does it make it still a good thing that Corpos can pump out slop without paying a living wage to artists or atleast royalties to those they took the training data from (with or without their consent)?

        AI can already create better looking photos than I can, but it has zero effect on my desire to do photography. I don’t see what the issue is.

        It pretty much can’t. It only mix and pattern matches existing photos.

        Coming back to my first half sentence:

        AI can’t create and when it only trains on it self it collapes, a short to this:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWvTr5wKGCA

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    Art is human creativity. By its very definition, it cannot include something lacking originality.

    A person may use AI as a tool to create art, but without human creativity it’s just mechanical regurgitation.

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      Human is the one with vision, AI is the tool. It’s just a much more advanced paint brush that anyone can use. Alone it doesn’t create anything and if the end result is bad, it’s not the fault of the brush.

      AI art is just an art sub-genre like painting, sculpting or photography is. Saying it’s not art is like a film photographer saying digital is not real photography - gatekeeping.

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    I think you’re confusing art with « content ». When I experience art (of any kind, painting, music, writing, highbrow or lowbrow), I’m interacting with the artist, their intention, sensibility, politics, etc. I don’t feel that connection with statistically generated images or prompt engineers, sorry.

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      I do photography and I’ve heard people analyze my work and try and find some meaning, intention or a message that I’m trying to convey with it.

      The reality is that I took 150 pictures and that was the one I liked the best. There’s nothing to it for me except how it looks. The fact that I managed to capture that specific photo is hardly anything but an accident. There is no meaning to it and whatever meaning one imagines seeing there is just in their mind. It’s a story you’re telling yourself and you’d come up with a similar story from a piece made by AI that you didn’t realize was such. If it stops being art at the moment you learn it was made by AI but you accept it as art when it was made by human even if it was, in fact, an accident, then that’s exactly the gatekeeping I’m talking about.

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          Tbf, that’s a lot of what making a good AI image is as well, messing with prompts and parameters then finding something you like.

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            Art allows you to experience the world through someone else’s senses and unconscious. The AI didn’t choose to take pictures of something. The AI doesn’t have subjectivity, which is what makes art interesting. If I find a box filled with pictures and find one I like, that does say something about my tastes, but it doesn’t remotely make me an artist.

            But TBF, as an artist, I wouldn’t expect to connect with anybody who doesn’t care about the difference between human-made art and fancy statistical averages of troves of pillaged art.

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    I respectfully disagree. It’s not gatekeeping to keep the robbers out of your house. I’ve upvoted this post as per the community rules, as it’s an unpopular opinion.

    That being said, it’s important to consider the reasons why AI generated images are controversial. The mangled remains of artist’s signatures have been found in AI generated images, and on some art-based websites such as Art Fight, AI generated images are not allowed as they fall under the definition of art theft. Moreover, AI generated images cannot be copyrighted.

    Some websites are not shy about taking the work of artists to use them for their generative AI models. The best way that I have seen this explained is that an AI image generator is like a person who is being commissioned to draw something. The requester describes what they want, but they did not actually make the picture. AI image generators take millions of drawings that artists have made, typically without their consent or knowledge, and stitch those images together to make something resembling what the prompter describes. Going back to the analogy of commissions, this would be similar to commissioning someone to draw something for you, but the person being commissioned turns out to be someone who just takes other people’s art and copy pastes parts of them together, or traces over other people’s art, without the permission of the affected artist(s).

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    Sorry, but I’ve seen this opinion expressed very often, though not word-for-word. Definitely not unpopular overall.

    I don’t disagree, though I would argue that AI art can never have the same importance as art directly generated by a human using their full set of abilities.

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    Gave you an upvote. This is an unpopular opinion shared on unpopularopinion.

    Personally I find AI art to look like “AI-art” if that makes sense. It has this generic look and feel to it. It might just be that people have to prompt it differently to get something that does not look generic.

    In my view it can be art, but it is just other peoples art regurgitated by a machine with lots of filtering (to prevent nudity and other things that art historically often contain)

    I think the biggest issue with LLMs / AI is that it is a loophole to use other peoples work and avoid copyright and licenses.

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      Personally I find AI art to look like “AI-art” if that makes sense.

      I know what you mean and while I generally agree I must still note that this only applies to the “bad” examples. It’s conceivable that you too have seen pieces you truly liked but didn’t realize were made by AI. This is something people often don’t seem to consider; AI art is only bad untill it isn’t.

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    Speaking of gatekeeping, I’d like to never call those unoriginal lines of code “artificial intelligence.” They are just parrots with a larger vocabulary.

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    Kudos op for a very unpopular opinion (at least on Lemmy).

    I’d add that people trying to gatekeep what is and isn’t art are missing the whole entire point of it. I get the same vibe about AI art on Lemmy as when boomers criticize modern art on Facebook.

    Any group that adds quotes around the word art (as in AI “art” or performance “art”) instantly loses any legitimacy on the subject. They’re virgins discussing sex acts.

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    i suppose i cant disagree with the premise… but to clarify, the AI is equivalent to a paint brush or phototshop… a tool used by the prompter to create (extremely derivative and hacky) artworks. i have seen a lot of very expressive works generated by AI, where a concept thought up by the prompter is expressed to humorous or sometimes grim results. but every AI image i have seen has tells of being AI generated.

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      every AI image i have seen has tells of being AI generated

      Except the ones you didn’t realize were made by AI. You by definition can’t know how many have passed for you as “genuine”.

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        and by the same logic, you cant know if i have or have not been duped by an AI image. thanks for asserting expert knowledge of my perceptionsl capabilities, but you’ll understand that i am extremely skeptical of that assertion. based on how i consume media, the likelihood that i have been exposed to AI generated images without my knowledge is pretty low. but do continue to tell me what my experience of the world is … its kinda hilarious

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          It’s a rather safe assumption. I too like to tell myself a story about how I can always spot fakes but I know it to not be true.

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            its not even about spotting AI images being passed off as real. it isn’t hard to simply seek out AI generated content when i want to look at it and avoid it when i don’t. you make it sound like it’s impossible to make choices about what content to consume, or that everyone is out there trying to pass off AIgen as real to the point where you can’t trust anything any more. we’re heading in that direction but we’re not there yet.

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    I suppose it would depend on who the “artist” is considered to be at the end.

    Say for instance I had an idea that I wanted a painting of Sir Issac Newton wearing a cowboy hat and riding a mechanical bull, and I commission a painter to create my vision. Instead of using paints or pencils or anything to create the image the painter goes online and downloads a bunch of pictures of Isaac Newton and mechanical bulls and collages them together in a way that looks kind of like an original painting.

    Who is the artist in that case? It’s not me, since I didn’t make anything. It’s not the painter since they didn’t actually create anything original, they just stole a bunch of pictures someone else took. It’s not the people who made the original images that the painter stole since they never even agreed to be part of any of it.

    We hit the same dilemma with AI. The person putting in the prompts hasn’t really “created” anything. The AI engine hasn’t created anything either, it just takes parts of other existing works. The people who made the original works had no say in any of how their work was used.

    How is that “art”?

    I love playing with AI to make silly images or even workshop ideas for things I might do in the future, but I wouldn’t call it “art”

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      I disagree with the premise that such mosaic of online pictures wouldn’t be “original” piece of art. It absolutely qualifies by my books

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          One who wrote the prompt. It may be the AI that does all the heavy lifting but it’s still a tool and alone it doesn’t create anything.

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            But the person who wrote the prompts didn’t create anything. With AI there really is no “artist”.

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              How did they not create anything? They inserted a prompt into the tool and received a picture.

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                They had a rough idea and left it to the AI to make any sense of it and “create” something.

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                  Painters can either splash paint on the canvas or spend months working on a photorealistic masterpiece. There’s absolutely a difference in skill needed for both but to claim the former is not art would also be gatekeeping.

                  That argument also disregards the actual difficulty of crafting the perfect prompt to get the AI to output what you want it to. Anyone can create pictures with it but it’s not trivial to get it to create exactly what you want.

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            by extension this would make the comissioner of an art piece an artist as well? Sorry but thats just a wrong assumption. The LLM would be the “artist” in this case as it pieced together the collage, blended it together and then presented it to the prompter for refinement.

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              This is slightly off topic because we’re now discussing who the artist is, not wether it’s considered art.

              My personal opinion on the matter is that artist is not a tool so by prompting them it’s still them whose creating the art piece. At best it would be considered a collaboration. The output is still art. I argue that the output of human and AI collaboration is also art.

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                I didn’t went for “what is considered art” though?

                For the commissioner the artists is well for this process a tool. For the prompter the LLM is also considered in this process as a tool. The commissioner didn’t do the art and neither did the prompter; they simply recieve the end/in progress art.

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                  What I hear you saying is that generative AI is the artist, not the one writing the prompt.

                  I’m fine by that. It’s not exactly how I see it but I have no argument against. It’s not what this thread is about.