I have realized a lot of posts on here mostly criticizing the data collection of people to train A.I, but I don’t think A.I upon itself is bad, because A.I- like software development- has many ways of implementations: Software can either control the user, or the user can control the software, and also like software development, some software might be for negative purposes while others may be for better purposes, so saying “Fuck Software” just because of software that controls the user feels pretty unfair, and I know A.I might be used for replacing jobs, but that has happened many times before, and it is mostly a positive move forward like with the internet. Now, I’m not trying to start a big ass debate on how A.I = Good, because as mentioned before, I believe that A.I is as good as its uses are. All I want to know from this post is why you hate A.I as a general topic. I’m currently writing a research paper on this topic, so I would like some opinion.
Anybody who thinks AI does art “better” is someone whose opinions in all matters, big or small, can be safely dismissed.
You’re right; and I do dismiss that opinion quite frequently and have learned at this point to just make no comment and continue the conversation forward.
On that note: I am a member of the art community, I make digital and physical art as a hobbyist. Occasionally I do some commissions for people but it’s not often. But, those commission requests are going down in number because people want instant art. One friend that made the comment of preferring AI art to me the other day said she does so because she doesn’t want to spend time practicing, so instead she likes to generate images and trace them as it’s more efficient and less taxing on her mind to make something. Assuming she’s doing this for fun or therapeutic reasons, why would you want efficiency? Why would making something(even if it’s a simple flower and sun in the corner of the page) be that taxing that you need to generate it? Let’s think of why it’s taxing first rather than skirting around that and using a generator that scrapes data from others illegally.
It’s a consumerist mindset that really leaks into a lot of the aspects I’ve mentioned in my previous comment. And honestly, I don’t think a lot of these people really believe AI art is better, I think they’re so used to instant gratification in almost every part of their life that they’re trying to get that dopamine hit regardless if it’s quality content(work, art, stories, etc) or not.