Forgot to Ask Someone (Art by Shen Comix)
Forgot to Ask Someone (Art by Shen Comix)
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“The enshittification will continue until the morale improves”
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apparently they are pushing so hard with this shit because that bubble is propping up their economy.
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I thought the bubble had popped when we had AI energy drinks, jokes on me it's just a bigger bubble now. When that thing bursts it's going to be way worse than the dotcom crash
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these guys are getting better at inflating bubbles way bigger than they ever would.
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unfortunately shareholders-chan is really cute
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This means she should be the first one to bend over and get fucked ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Wouldn't be the first time that's happened to the characters in one of Shen's comics, maybe it's on purpose this time.
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The thing this comic misses is it should show like an untalented every man declaring I totally want to use this to make art that I don't have the ability to create. Because that's exactly what happened making the artist value massively decrease.
If you think that there's even a remote chance you'll be able to discern what was AI generated within a year, you're fooling yourself.
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AI replacing artists like crossbows replaced archers.
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Exactly, when that AI music thing came out I really enjoyed making weird music. Like I would ask give me banjo techno with a digeridoo and I got pretty cool stuff out of it. I never pretended to be gifted at making music, but I'll definitely use the tools to experiment.
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It is not so much the "I want to use it as a toy regardless of the environmental consequences" crowd like you that is the main problem. That would be the "I want to use it to create profit regardless of the environmental and artistic consequences" which is the main problem. They will eventually completely replace actual art, because it profits them and they have no limits to how much slop they can produce.
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It's quite sad how AI could've been a tool to ENHANCE an Artist's workflow, but naaaaaaah corpos aren't about making lives better
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I've heard about some actually usable frame interpolation tool getting cancelled in favor of promt machines once the latter became more apparent
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Well it can and does, lots of artists use it for making interesting compositions for example. Lots of graphic designers use it too.
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Shhh, most people in this community will start fuming and calling it slop if you mention that.
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You can use it to upscale your drawings, inpaint, add detail etc etc
Lots of stuff to enhance
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This is what I keep saying. NO ONE WANTS THIS. Its purely slop so ad companies can fire all their artists and give you unlimited targeted ads. Its the ULTIMATE enshittification.
I am not artistic, but I want to make my own art. Why should I not use AI?
You are still not making your own art.
I'm not athletic, but I want to run a marathon. Why should I not use a motorcycle?
It's not your own art, that's the whole point. Learn to draw or paint or even use graphic design software like every other artist.
"I want to be artistic without putting in any actual effort."
If you can only "create" AI art, you're not an artist. I don't even care if you use it, just don't act like you're anywhere near the same as someone who spent time actually learning and honing a skill, or that it's your own work. It's the AI's "work" that was typically stolen from actual artists online.
You could learn to be an artist. Just like how a musician learns...or a teacher learns...holy shit people are so lazy now!
If you want to use image generation to generate an image, go ahead. I sometimes do the same for placeholder images.
It’s not art though, it’s just plagiarism that’s been abstracted several times over. I could come up with a really cool search string for Google Images that has an awesome first result. But by downloading the first result and passing it off as my work isn’t art, it’s plagiarism.
If you want real art for your project, commission an artist to make it; or keep practicing until you find yourself good enough to make it.
I’m not gatekeeping art; the creativity, the effort, and the skills of the craft are the gatekeeper.
Because telling something to make a picture is not you making it. It's that thing making it.
I'm baffled by how this is so fucking hard to comprehend?
The process is effectively just doing a Google image search.
Because actually learning to make art is fun?
Because the end result just isn't very good.
Partially because it's a tool made by stealing other's work. AI exists today because hundreds of thousands of artists and writers and real human people did not get compensated for their work. It's like support Walmart despite it purposefully shutting down small businesses or buying blood diamonds (is that too far?). It's something made by hurting other people.
I don't know if I'd go so far as to say "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism" but like it's not easy. We all are forced to make shortcuts and are forced to be a part of harmful systems. So I wouldn't judge you if you used AI to generate art, but I would judge you if you pretended it wasn't unethical and harmful to both the environment and fellow humans.
I think people are particularly up in arms about this topic because the output is, in some instances, so bad or so commercial or so lifeless that it feels like a really poor exchange for taking money away from artists and burning rare materials and energy. Like it's so easy to NOT do this thing that it feels extra bad when people do it.
I get it, when midjourney first came out I was a huge fan. In fact I think it's easy to say I love the idea of AI as a tool for quick creative creation. I think it's incredibly empowering. I just think there isn't a form of it today that wasn't created via value extraction from the working class.
Like any skill, you have to do it badly for a while, then you do it kind of ok for a while, then you do it mediocre for a while, and you keep taking those steps, and after some time you will have the skill to craft what you see in your minds eye, that’s why art is appreciated, because it requires effort.
AI is not you creating anything, it’s not a skill, nothing was honed, earned, or done with earnest, you’re just commissioning a program to do statistical algorithms with colors, it’s soulless garbage. In order to create something you have to actually create something.
But why would you?
Here's my sci-fi novel:
Who needs implementation when some techbro wants you to think art is all about coming up with an original idea?
Why don't you consider yourself artistic? Why do you want to make your own art? By using AI you surrender ownership of your work to opaque algorithms and lose so much of what makes you special as someone unique and individual.
Why don't you just make your own art. Then you can be an artist. You want to be an artist, but you don't want to make art, so you don't actually want to be an artist.
I don't care how bad it is. Whatever you make is better than the soulless garbage LLMs make. Just start doing it if you actually want to.
I mean fuck me, but as long as the content is good I really don’t care about its origin!
I wasn’t the guy who downvoted you btw
It isn't good though.
Im conflicted. I mean good for you. But I have a deeper caring of art and media than that, so I care about the creator. The gibbity that Elmo told to make a nazi musical doesn't appeal to me.