u/Jane_does_art

Neutral here. I've seen it from both sides. They treat AI like this magical back box that you can use to substitute an artist without any supervision. And it doesn't help that every other company also tries to push that policy.

If people would treat AI like a real tool, like many people say it is, I would think you'd see less of the hatred and preconceptions from antis and artist.

Like, when I grew up and the internet was a new land for us all, we were told not to use the internet for research. It quickly shifted then to, yes use the internet but please verify your source. Even Wikipedia should never been used as your main source.

And I feel like people don't know how to question the output they are been served.

On the other hand there are people who do that, who touch up their ai output, be it art, writing, what ever, you name it...,and people despise it just because at one end of the pipeline there was ai involved.

There's this artist, I'm not allowed to name because of rules, who is very talented. But at some time they used ai generated background for their art. And you wouldn't even notice it because it's the background and it's been blurred because it's not the focus of the image. Yet people shitted on the artist for being a fraud and sending death threats and all until the artist had to back down. And still they get the occasional anti ai comment on their works.

Art is so much more then the physical skill and talent one has. There are very bad artists who still perform very well, one even made an anti ai art just recently. And very good artist that get almost no exposure.

My answer when someone asks me if AI is art is always this. A collage is art. You didn't create the prices that make up your artwork. But by applying your own creativity you created something that is more then the sum of it's components. And that's art.

Or to take the beloved analogy that the antis like to use. Ai is like ordering a pizza. But ai can also be your cake mix. But in the end, it's still food and isn't that what's matter? The taste of the food, not how it was made?