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[โ€“] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Direct correlations, like I told mindbleach. A camera is a tool that does exactly what the photographer makes it do. An image generator takes the place of a commissioned artist. You describe what you want to see, and the machine generates it. Prompters aren't artists, they're commissioners. And since machines aren't artists either, the output of a such a machine isn't art.

[โ€“] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Why do you draw a distinction between the "direct correlation" of a camera and how an image generator works? Image generators are just as deterministic as a camera is. If you give it the same inputs, it returns the same output. A lot of tools implicitly put a random input with the user supplied input, but if you keep that the same, there's no difference.
Do you know how they generally work? Technically, not from what an interface presents you with since that's variable.
Beyond that, I don't think that determinism or simple relationships between action and output are what constitutes an art tool either. Otherwise any artistic tool that intentionally plays with randomness wouldn't be art, and neither would a complicated tool or medium.