rokket posted at 9:29 PM Mon, 6 February 2023 - #2977157

I am starting to see a flood of it on DeviantArt. Almost all the images I am seeing (because I don't want to see yet another naked female, so I choose to only look at 3D or painitngs, et al) lately have been AI.

I don't see it as art. With what we do, especially me since I create almost everything the figures are wearing, there is a skill set. With what I used to do, drawing, painting, inking, there is a definite skill set.

But I have messed with some of the AI online sites. A couple of key phrases and a couple of mouse clicks, and you have an image.

Where is the skill in that? Where is the creativity? It's all in the software. There are some incredible images created out of it. Look on DA. There are some that look photo realistic. The uncanny valley has been crossed.

But there is no skill involved. While some might argue that it lets everyone create art, the imagination, the years of perfecting your skill set, or your workflow is not there. You can learn to manipulate the software in a matter of minutes.

If I am wrong, tell me.

But it's like the old musician's argument that a DJ is not a musician. AI manipulation is not art.

HO-boy.

I tried "Mid-journey"(my gods do not let that thing into your discord) and it was fun. I used prompts such as "water lilies in gold" or "Geisha and water lilies" and it was abit of fun.
Thought, ok, this is just something to play with. I didn't give it much thought. AI wasn't bad at the time(this was less than a year ago)

Now...
I open DA and that is almost all I see. It can be beautiful, I will give it that. Even if it hits the "Uncanny valley" aspect of the mind. But...
I can't say it is art. And the law doesn't either. If a person uses a prompt to create something out of one of these engines, unless they use it as a background, etc, is not copyright'able as it is not created by a human. There is a lawyer on Youtube that goes into detail on this.
That aside, I see it being very hard to keep up with it. As an artist, its going to make it difficult.

It harvests our work(and Adobe is helping it) and poof! Artists...are outworked.
Also, DA has been sued already for this by three artists. I cant remember if it is still in court or not. But DA helping AI has already been flagged an issue.

But as it has been said above, if it is trained to steal work...its not wholly AI.

Oh and fyi, there are companies advertising on LinkedIN to “harvest” data and images for AI.

Our time as artists...may be in the sunset years.

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