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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

enables a lot of ordinary people to create art.

Exactly the type of fucking idiot that's never created art in their life.
"Art is paintings of horses"-ass motherfucker.
The reason you can't make art isn't because you're bad at drawing or painting and need AI to help you, it's because you don't have the creativity to overcome those limitations. No matter what words you put into stable diffusion, you will only create pictures, not art - there's no meaning underlying the piece, you just typed "t-rex with massive tits" and called the output art because you can't tell the difference.

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

its not even that they don't have the creativity - its that people have been so poisoned by commodity capitalism that they feel like their art 'doesn't count' unless it looks like 'real art' that can make money

people are so isolated from the creative process that they think they can dump it entirely, as if all it is is just knowing how to scribble on a page

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Well, people like what comes out of Stable Diffusion. Which is perfectly fine.

This is like the pizza shop complaining that I'm cooking at home.

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

its more like the pizza shop calling you out when you're cooking frozen pizza and calling yourself a chef

all power to you if you want to just consume slop, but dont complain when you turn around years later and the quality of everything across the board has gone even further to shit cos you were so happy you could type in words and see anything you wanted for all the 15 minutes of dopamine it gave you

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Artist incomes are threatened by the rise of Generative models. Especially mediocre artists who Stable Diffusion have already surpassed.

Technology changes the world and obsoletes some professions. It has been like this for ever. Artists are not any different.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

even mediocre artists actually create art, which is something stable diffusion can't do and will never be able to do. You completely misunderstand what art is and its purpose. It's not just a nice looking picture or a meandering story. You understand art as a technical profession creating a product to sell, which is why you equate AI slop with art. Your earlier comment making a distinction between artists and "ordinary people" is completely wrong. The distinction between someone who's an artist and otherwise isn't technical proficiency or ability to make a picture. It's a deeper skill than that, the ability to be creative, to have perspective. It's an ability to communicate. AI can't communicate because it doesn't have a perspective, since it doesn't actually know anything.

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

this is what it always comes down to

they don't respect artists, they don't respect artistic labour but they so desperately need and want the fruits of said labour and so the only option left is to cheat and lie

hell, it's evident in the last sentence of their reply - that they see 'Artist' as a profession that is getting 'Obsoleted', as if the only reason art exists in the first place is because we as a society have been too archaic, and we would jump at the chance to drop the creative process in a heartbeat

complete and total alienation from creativity as a human experience

[–] axont@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

it's so bleak and I can't sympathize with their perspective at all. It's like the most they get out of art is to see a picture or a movie and say it looks cool. Purely superficial. They don't like art, they like decoration. They don't actually care about seeing a representation of another perspective. They don't care about themes, symbols, or what an artist is trying to communicate, nor do they even want to know.

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

its very evident from their other replies that their metric for 'good' art is 'is it beautiful?' and their definition of 'beauty', in turn, is simply 'does looking at this release dopamine or not'

deeply unserious person

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yet AI produces beautiful images.

This is not any different from the invention of paint or coloured glass improving quality of art.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yeah that's not the point of art nor what it is. What art looks like isn't connected to the quality of it. Go get some perspective by engaging with artists sometime. I'm out. You're not a serious person. See ya.

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

people want quality. why would anyone pay for low quality art?

[–] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

The measure of art is not the sale you absolute dingus. What a sad, soulless prespective

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

genuinely curious what you mean by 'mediocre artists' and the idea that Stable Diffusion has 'surpassed' them

do you have any examples? or is this just a vibes thing?

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

take a look at civitai: https://civitai.com/images

there are some amazing gems there.

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

that doesn't answer my question though - what are you defining as a mediocre artist? or is anything that doesn't fit the 'hyper realistic AI' look count as mediocre?

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

there are lots of graphics designers making content for various advertisements, promotions, digitial animation, effects and the like. these are the first people to be replaced. that is what I mean.

[–] yoink@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

again, its just very clear you have no clue what graphic design involves, let alone anything else to do with the creative process

art really is just 'pretty picture' innit

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

why would someone pay for a graphics designer when Stable Diffusion can do the same?

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How do you plan to tell stable diffusion things like "make the star a bit bigger" or "move the words slightly further to the left"? Have you ever actually used a graphic designer? You don't just ask them to make you a logo and they're done, there's a lot of back and forth between artist and client to reach the final product.

[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

Creating an AI UX Researcher who finds pain points based on 18 finger models

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can do these with ControlNet.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 0 points 7 months ago
[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How will AI take over creative professions when it can't even perform rote professions? AI chatbots keep going rogue and lying to customers about company policies (and even the actual law), image generators can't get enough of illegal and violent imagery, facial recognition AI's keep identifying black people as all looking the same - in art the value of a peice is constrained by the meaning it has to people, so why do you think that LLMs and all the other predictive generators we laughably call intelligent will be able to create meaningful peices by putting together the most likely set of pixels?

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I didn't ask when, I asked how. How is a prediction engine, that is something that guesses a likely output based on past information, going to display creativity?

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The results speak for themselves. There is amazing AI generated content out there.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I don't fucking care if it's on the moon, answer my question: by what mechanism will a machine learning model exhibit creativity? Like you understand my question, right - you know how "AI" works?

[–] riseuppikmin@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago

"Of course I know how AI works. I type 'Big titty tradwife submissive elf who looks like she loves me' into the the magic prompt box and then it gives me my BEAUTIFUL image"

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can't convince people that something does not exist, if they can see it with their own eyes.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you don't know how AI works? And can I remind you that you literally haven't offered a single image as evidence, just vaguely told people to go look at websites? Even if you weren't avoiding my question, you do understand that you have to show specific examples to back your claims up?

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand your problem. There are mountains of images and videos in many online communities. CivitAI is probabl the biggest. There are even several ones in lemmy. Take your pick.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

All those mountains of images and you can't even link a single one and explain what about it shows creativity.

Anyway, you can't be so stupid as to not know what my problem is, I've spelt it out specifically in every single comment: My problem is that you won't give an answer to my question (as a reminder, that question is "how will an AI show creativity?"). Use your words to provide an explanation, backed up with specific linked images to demonstrate it. Stop saying "uhhh i saw it on ebaumsworld" when you're asked for an actual explanation articulated through language.

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

you're just obsessed. AI works, creates lovely images, and nothing you say can change the facts of the world.

join us in the stable diffusion communities if you want to learn more: stable_diffusion_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And still you avoid the question, because you have no idea about art or machine learning. You just think the patterns are pretty.

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Don't you have a baby mobile to be gurgling at?