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Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Toneswirly@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I find that i can spot AI Images fairly easily these days, especially the sort of fantastical tableaus that get posted to the various AI communities around lemmy. I'm tired of seeing them; it all looks the same to me. Was wondering if im being too sensitive, or if other people are similarly bored of the constant unimaginative AI spam...

For the record, I block any explicit AI Art communities that pop up in the feed, but there are more every day...

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[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social -5 points 10 months ago

I think you're being unfairly dismissive of the amount of work and creativity that goes into using an AI art generator well. Sure, you can just slam down a prompt and post whatever comes up. But if you really want to generate something specific it can be a ton of work. It can also involve plenty of fiddling with traditional art tools (funny that Photoshop and such are considered "traditional" now, once upon a time it was Photoshop's turn on the "not real art!" Firing line). Some of the most egregious moral panics lately have come from work where 90% of the effort was traditional tooling, with just a dab of AI in the mix.

But it all gets lumped together under "LOL bad fingers!" And demonized.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 11 points 10 months ago

But if you really want to generate something specific it can be a ton of work

How much work involved compared to digital art started from a blank page?

[-] tal@lemmy.today -1 points 10 months ago

Less.

But then, the same is true of digital art itself relative to that done on traditional media, or of photography compared to portrait painting, both technologies that were at one point new.

[-] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 7 points 10 months ago

Still orders of magnitude less effort than actually learning to draw for yourself and making something actually creative

But please do go on about how your pink slime regurgitated by an LLM trained on stolen artwork scraped from hundreds of thousands of actual artists requires so much effort and creativity

[-] FaceDeer@kbin.social -4 points 10 months ago

But please do go on about how your pink slime regurgitated by an LLM trained on stolen artwork scraped from hundreds of thousands of actual artists requires so much effort and creativity

Because clearly you're so open to reason.

[-] Knitwear@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Clearly you're not open to facts. You may not like their tone but is any of it untrue?

I get that it must feel uncomfortable to be faced with the concept of consequences when you're having fun, but for someone who's into art you sure seem to hate artists

[-] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 2 points 10 months ago

I mean, I'm not the one who had the unmitigated gall and sense of entitlement to compare the thousands of hours each of the tens of thousands of artists (whose artwork was scraped by LLMs without so much as a by-your-leave) spent practicing to get good at artwork to the... what, ten? twenty? hours you took to get good at "prompt engineering." Nor did I have the absolute nerve to then complain about how you have it SO ROUGH because you have to "fiddle with Photoshop" but all the mean people mock all your hard effort!

Hint: You're being mocked because you deserve to be mocked. At best, AI "artists" like yourself are lazily piggybacking off the literal millions of collective man-hours of labor that actual artists spent honing their talent, and trying to pass off the creative equivalent of a boneless chicken nugget shaped like a dinosaur as being of worthy of the same respect as a beef wellington, or at least a damn good burger.

[-] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social -5 points 10 months ago

the artwork isn't stolen.

[-] Alexc 0 points 10 months ago

Really good counterpoint, and you are correct, that I don’t know enough about it. I suspect that, like most things, there will emerge some real “power users” - the artists if you will. I think the problem that started this thread is that, currently, you see AI generated art everywhere and I do agree with that. Then again, maybe they said this about Cave art in antediluvian times…

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