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this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2025
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They weren’t saying that the rock art was digital art.
They’re saying that as an artist whose medium of choice is digital, they can still make art in other mediums and that any artist will be able to do the same, no matter their medium.
Sure sounds to me like they are claiming this is digital.
And it's just gatekeeping art. I wouldn't tell a painter they aren't a real artist just because they can't play guitar. And all art forms have long history of passing on information across generations. The saying "good artists borrow, great artists steal" is far older than any computer.
There's a lot of problems with AI in general, but most of these complaints I see about AI art in particular are really misdirected complaints about how terrible copyright and other intellectual property laws are. For almost all of human history until about a century ago it was common and encouraged to take and build upon the ideas of others- it's only because capitalists found a way to profit off of restricting ideas that we started to do so.
Did you see that there is a word that comes after digital?
A digital artist—that is, an artist whose medium of choice is digital—is still able to make art in other mediums without ceasing to be a digital artist. That doesn’t make the other art digital, and they didn’t claim that it did.
If typing in prompts to generate images from the stolen work of artists makes someone an artist, then so does commissioning art and giving feedback based on how you want it changed. If you’re not okay calling that person an artist, ask yourself why you’re fine with calling AI ‘artists’ that.
"digital artist" is a term people use for someone that makes digital art as their primary form of art (using programs like Photoshop, krita, or Clip Studio Paint as an example).
Similarly, "digital art" is art made using those same tools as much as "traditional art" is art made without those tools. These are all just labels people give to be specific within a group.
Nobody is saying a digital artist isn't an artist.
Once you take a digital photo of the art and upload it, it becomes digital art... If you like.
But really you're either being intentionally obtuse or you've realised you misinterpreted the statement and are doubling down and trying to dig your way out of a hole.