• NounsAndWords@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    AI is going to destroy art the same way Photoshop, or photography, or pre-made tubes of paints, destroyed art. It’s a tool, it helps people take the idea in their head and put it in the world. And it lowers the barrier to entry, now you don’t need years of practice in drawing technique to bring your ideas to life, you just need ideas.

    If AI gets to a point that it can give us creative, original, art that sparks emotion in novel ways…well we probably also made a super intelligent AI and our list of problems is much different than today.

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      7 months ago

      As someone who’s absolutely terrible at drawing, but enjoys photography and generally creativity, having AI tools to generate my own art is opening up a whole different avenue for me to scratch my creative itch.
      I’ve got a technical background, so figuring out the tools and modifying them for my purposes has been a lot more fun than practice drawing.

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        This is the perfect use case.

        Photoshop didn’t destroy jobs forever, all it did was shift how people worked AND actually created work and different types of work.

      • Gabu@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        As someone who’s absolutely terrible at drawing

        Then practice. Nearly no artist was born knowing how to draw or paint, we dedicated countless hours to learn what works and what doesn’t.

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          As a musician, I couldn’t agree more. Talent really helps with initial aptitude, but will peter out when challenged. That’s when real skill development begins. Time and investment connecting you to your craft until there’s nothing in the world between the two, that’s self actualization.

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          It feels like you didn’t read the 2nd half of their comment. They do practice. They have a creative side that they want to explore, but they don’t enjoy that sort of grind. Instead, they like tinkering and combining tools in interesting ways. I don’t think this is a bad thing.

          Leo Fender didn’t play guitar and always wished that he’d sit down and devoted the time, but never actually enjoyed it. But to say that Leo didn’t contribute to the music world, would be insane.

    • braxy29@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      i like the idea of AI as a tool artists can use, but that’s not a capitalist’s viewpoint, unfortunately. they will try to replace people.

    • StaticFalconar@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      This. AI was never made for the sole purpose of creating art or beating humans in chess. Doing so are just side quests for the real stuff.

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      7 months ago

      Some people also doesn’t care if there is a Rembrandt or a Picasso or an AI but like to dabble in the arts anyways because it’s something they like to do.

      It’s fulfilling (I do love Renoir though).

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      7 months ago

      Tbh I hate Photoshop for a lot of photography. It is unfortunately necessary for macro photography, which is the only type I do. Which is one of the reasons mine is not nearly as good as it could be because I refuse to use it.

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      7 months ago

      I hate this sentiment. It’s not a tool like a brush is to a canvas. It’s a machine that runs off the fuel of our creative achievements. The sheer amount of pro AI shit I read from this place just makes me that closer to putting a bullet in my fucking skull