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[โ€“] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I mean the toilet is quite obviously art, you can understand exactly what the artist was expressing. AI art literally isn't art because it lacks any expression or meaning.

Evidence? Show me an expressive piece of AI "art". There is none.

[โ€“] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

AI art, in my mind, is art in the same way that "photography" is art. It's people using a tool.
AI art is unsatisfying not because it's not art, but because it doesn't have as much depth or intention behind it.
In the image above, you know exactly what I'm trying to convey and what references I'm making in doing so. But knowing that it's AI, you also know I spent all of 10 seconds on it for a laugh. I could have put in more work to flesh out how the details should look, and to get everything just right, but the tool makes it too easy to get "close enough", so there's no push to refine, get the details right, and put the time into it that would make someone else feel compelled to appreciate the attention or statement.

My hand drawn representation of the same idea in about the same time conveys roughly the same expression and meaning, if we adjust for "drawing with thumb on a phone", "bad handwriting in general", and "why did my own default to... Fuschia? "