A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
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There are difficult 'AI' tools.
Look up controlnet workflows or VACE, just to start, much less little niches in vapoursynth pipelines or image editing layers. You could spend days training them, messing with the implementation, then doing the manual work of carefully and deliberately applying them. This has, in fact, has been happening in film production for awhile, just in disguise.
Same with, say, LLMs used in game mods where appropriate, like the Rimworld mod. That's careful creative expression.
...As usual, it's tech bros fucking everything up by dumbing it down to zero-option prompt box and then shoving that in front of as many people as possible to try and monopolize their attention.
In other words, I agree with the author that what I hate about 'AI art' is the low effort 'sloppiness.' It's gross, like rotten fast food. It makes me sad. And that's 99.999% of all AI art.
...But it doesn't have to be like that.
It's like saying the concept of the the fediverse sucks because Twitter/Facebook suck, even if 99.999% of what folks see is the slop of the later. It's not fair to the techniques, and it's not holding the jerks behind mass slop proliferation accountable.
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Precisely. AI art is bad because the users making “art” with it essentially have such bad taste they’ll publish anything the AI shits out.
There exist artistic ways to use AI as a tool, but none of them are easy. In fact they might be harder than just painting the damn picture yourself.
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based and real-pilled, the both of you.
i’m excited for the future of art. we have the potential for a new age of renaissance men who master the arts, humanities, and sciences all at once.
i think a lot of people shitting on genAI don’t see engineering itself as art… and i think that’s a piss-poor, deathly sad view of this world. it’s like 2/3 of westerners weirdly resent anything “math or science coded” as they might call it. a shame. a damn shame.
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I've spent five, six hours getting an ai generated image to be just what I want using stable diffusion models, comfyui, various Lora's, op adapters, etc. I've made ai generated songs that I've taken the considerable time writing rhyming lyrics that express what I want.
Generating ai art doesn't make me an artist. Generating ai music doesn't make you a musician. Though if you've written the lyrics yourself it DOES make you a poet. And if you're getting down into the nitty gritty fine tuning modules (which I have done), as well as using more complex tools available, it IS difficult and it DOES take time to learn.
This shit can get REALLY technical and there is a lot to learn and it can be very difficult to produce something you're proud of.
Does it mean making something with ai means it's as difficult as making real art? No. They're completely different skill sets.
Does writing the lyrics to an ai generated song make you a musician? No. Do writing engaging, catchy lyrics that you have a computer into a song make you a good lyricist? Yes.
People use familiar terms to describe new skill sets and technology. The new thing can't be hard because the old thing is hard. writing lyrics doesn't matter as an act of personal creation because an ai did the rest. When you start really looking at this shit and drawing you see dimensions of nuance far beyond "ai bad"
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I feel like some promises were broken 😂
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I feel like some promises were broken 😂
You're absolutely right!
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I have never seen particular humans expressing themselves in ai art or music, all i see is the tech company model behind it; be it sora, stable diffusion or mid journey, ai is not a tool for the prompters; the prompters are the tool for the AI model.
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I like this take. It sums up the reality of AI quite well.
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I find this li'l guy hilarious for some reason.
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To me, a big part of it is that I'm tired of commodity art. I don't care about your pretty pixel soup. I've seen other pixel soups before that were similarly pretty.
And I've been tired for many years, long before every middle-manager under the sun could cook up their own pretty pixel soup.
Back then, it was humans trying to make a living off of their passion and then settling for commodity art to make ends meet. I was cheering them on, because they were passionate humans.Now that generative AI has destroyed that branch of humanity, there's no one to cheer on anymore.
Even if generative AI never existed in the first place, I'd like to see commodity art being relegated to the sidelines and expressive art coming into the limelight instead.Tell me a story with your art. About your struggles or a brainfart you had, or really anything. This comic is great, for example. There's emotions there and I can see the human through the art. I would've chosen a very different illustration for whatever, for example, which tells me a lot about the artist, but also about myself.
I have never had that kind of introspection with pretty pixel soups.-
I agree, and I think it's closely related to something else I dislike about AI — art or other media. The best it can do is interpolate among other, generic, mediocre training data. There are a few cases (novel go strategies, optical illusions) where a human has carefully guided it to a new creative output. But on its own, it's missing that obsessive need to render some internal idea into the world.
I run into this in programming. I can add the AI agent to do some administrative tasks, like factoring out a React component. But it's never yet been able to solve a problem I got stuck on, where a teammate quickly identified the extra aspect I needed to take into account, or the way I needed to shift my approach.
AI is great at the instinctual, pattern-matching part. I wish we would use it to eliminate the redundancy in our writing and art, rather than amplify it.
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Yeah, this discrepancy really irks me in programming, too. It's really good at known problems, like student homework or whatever task a middle manager will throw at it to see how well it works.
But because of the nature of software – if there is a solution, you can easily share it with everyone in the world – it's kind of our job to work on anything but known problems.Yeah, there's gonna be some known parts, where it may be able to assist, similar to a library or StackOverflow. But if it can put together your whole solution without tons of human input, chances are that solution is already out there and you should be using it instead.
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The Oatmeal! 😍😍 I haven’t been to that site in so long, I’m so glad they’re still around! Thanks for sharing!
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Art is beautiful not because economic value has been captured and skewered into aesthetics. It is a part of being human.
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Yea, I agree. It is like the anti-ai art luddites don't understand this... The people making the promps are still making art, just by the nature of it being humans making human decisions. Skill isn't a gate to art in the same way anymore, despite what the gatekeepers want everyone to believe.
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Okay, I'm willing to accept that we generally shouldn't decide that our personal lines in the sand can serve as meaningful differentiators between art and not-art. By the same token, don't expect me to be particularly impressed by a (mostly) photorealistic composition just because you spent 30 minutes fine-tuning your prompt. If I'm not appreciating your skill and the time you committed to your vision, the bar for the impact you need to make is that much higher. For me, most AI art falls flat on that front as well.
Maybe someone will be the breakthrough artist that shows the rest of us luddites what a genuinely beautiful interplay between drafting a prompt and massaging an engine will look like, but (1) even that person is something other than a painter or a photographer, and (2) I don't think we're there yet and may never be.
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Are you the type of person who pretends you made a cheeseburger when you got it from a drive though window? Because that's what you sound like.
Prompters don't make decisions in the piece, the algorithm generated stuff and if the prompter doesn't like it, then they prompt again. No choices made.
It's like how you all use the same words when someone disagrees with you, "luddite" and "gatekeeping". You can't really think for yourself so your regurgitate what someone else wrote.
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I don't like ai-art, most of the time it is a pursuit of the economic value of an aesthetic without a genuine engagement with the human part.
Further, AI is part of a broad process of dehumanization that diminishes the value of humans and the human condition in favor of an imagined intelligence that all artists have always instinctually understood was a threat.
No artists with any wisdom at all thinks skill is a gatekeeper for human artists, skill is rather the inveitable result of a sustained intimacy between an artist and their art and what you mistake for a worship of skill is a love of that relationship framed in the context of skill. In so far as the obsession with artistic skill acts as a gatekeeper to anybody, it is in large part because capitalism demands things be abstracted and reduced to pure economic value. Artists rarely gatekeep art themselves, the gatekeeping has NOTHING to do with artists nor does it originate from their desire to create art it is a peripheral process imposed upon art by distorting forces attempting to control art (such as AI).
Also, people need to stop lazily using the example of Luddites without knowing their history. They aren't who you think they were, stop dropping the reference like you know what it means if you don't know what it means.
TL;DR If skill is a gatekeeper to art it is because capitalism demands scarcity be imposed upon the pursuit of making art, it has nothing to do with art itself. Hailing AI as a gift to would-be artists totally misses the point, I am not against using new tools to make art, I am against the rise in dehumanization dominating societies around the world at the moment of which AI is a central actor.
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tl;dr - "art" generated by LLMs is ultimately lame and uninspiring. It's probably never going to inspire people very much. It's a parlor trick and everyone intrinsically recognizes it. Don't expect to be taken seriously as a creator if this is your primary tool.
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It's generative AI though, not creative. It can literally only create what it's seen before. It's incapable of being original. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Andy Warhol painted soup cans. But anyone who expects inspiration and creativity from generative AI doesn't understand the technology as it's applied...
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I am skeptical about “never”, but right now I agree that’s true. I expect it to be true for many years to come. That being said, we have seen a lot of improvement (over even the last few months) in AI image quality, composition, and prompt adherence.
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In order for an art piece to exist, an artist have to have something to say by said art. Fancy autocomplete is not an entity, it's an algorithm to generate something looking like something else, and even if it crawls out of the uncanny valley at some point (which I'm not sure is possible), the best case scenario is that it will generate something that looks like some people did at some point. It's not what art is, and it's not what people look for in art. This will never change, this is the never in said never.
AGI will create art, but at this point we're further away from it than we were 10 years ago, or even 50 years ago (and I would argue it's a goos thing)
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Walther Benjamin examines this point extensively in The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, which should be required reading for everyone, but especially anyone who thinks that AI art is the same as human art. The crux is that an authentic work (you can think of it as the “original”) has some… thing , some Je ne sais quoi that he calls the Aura. It’s a feeling you get from the real authentic thing. It’s the reason people line up at the Louvre to see the tiny Mona Lisa behind thick plate glass instead of just looking at a poster. Or why NFTs tried to be a thing and basically failed after the meme of it all died out.
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I think the "Je ne sais quoa" is the human element: art is fundamentally about human communication and interaction.
We can (usually) infer the meaning and emotion an artist is trying to convey -- particularly if given context. Even if we don't "get" what the artist is trying to say, we can come up with something an equally valid. Real art only "works" because of empathy.
AI generated "art" fails for that reason: you can't infer the thought process of a machine that doesn't think, or emphasize with emotions it doesn't have. As a tool it can assist with creating art, but the more heavily it's involved in the creative process the less meaningful the resultant "art" becomes.
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Pregnant Mario lactating Jamba juice all over Blanka from street fighter, indeed.
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Unexpected mention of Allie Brosh in the thanks at the end. Genuinely nice to be able to confirm she's still out there, alive and kicking, doing whatever it is she's doing now.
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She wrote a book a couple years back that explains where she vanished to. It's good.
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She's written a couple, at least. Þe two I have are boþ good.
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I think that there is AI "art" that goes beyond typing a few words into chat gpt and waiting for a result.
I don't know how popular this is today but about two years ago I watched lots of people go wild with stable diffusion workflows. It was a whole palette of tools: Control net, Inpainting, sketches with img2img for the composition, corrections in Photoshop and so on. It took hours or days of manual work until people "generated" the image that they initially imagined. I would say that this would count as art... Writing one prompt into your favourite llm and take what you get: not so much.
One example for reference: https://youtu.be/K0ldxCh3cnI
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It’s still used a lot. ComfyUI is the software of choice for the people you’re thinking about, and there’s some pretty advanced workflows that blow my mind how anyone even came up with that stuff. The end results are worth it though.
AI slop that we are used to seeing are people just throwing prompts at chatGPT or Gemini, maybe ask it to change a detail or another if they are feeling less lazy than usual, and then share it on the web
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Growing up my mother had (still has come to think of it) a book about Wyeth at the Kuerner family farm. The Wyeth picture in the Oatmeal story is not part of the larger collection of works all from that farm, but it still has the feeling. I can't reccomend people looking into Wyeth and his art high enough
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AI art is great, because now I can make artsy pictures in my presentations. AI art can never replace real artists though, it's just not that good. There will always be a place for real artists, AI art is only for amateurs that would never pay for real art anyways.
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Enjoy making Clipart Storyteller.
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Or where hiring an actual real artists - for example if you were to need dozens of graphics for, say, a TTRPG you're running.
On the other hand, if you're e.g. writing your own TTRPG, and getting it published, you ought to use a real artist.
IMO the best way to determine if AI is okay to use or not, is by the purpose - is it a personal project, something you won't profit off? Then sure. Is it something you're going to profit off of? Then use a real artist and include them in the profits.
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Or where hiring an actual real artists - for example if you were to need dozens of graphics for, say, a TTRPG you're running.
The only issue with that is that the AI was trained off the art from people who did create art for their TTRPG either paid or as a passion project.
Does that mean that new art effectively stops getting made for these scenarios? That real artists who are inspired to make cool art for their games just disappear or get assumed it was just AI?
I kind of wonder if we just stagnate from here, with very little new art being created that doesn't come from AI. In 10 years will we still be using the long recycled art from the last human artists? (Not that humans will stop creating art, but less will and they will often be drowned out from the flood of AI output)
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I think this can be summarised as "fair use", something the AI providers like OpenAi could learn a thing or two about.
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One of the best minis in a game I was in that was ever used was a hydra made out of paper, and when we killed a head, the dm pulled one out of the slots and it was a bloody stump drawn at the base of the neck. Everyone at the table flipped their shit, it was awesome.
If the dm just used ai to make something, that wouldn't have happened. It would've been disappointing to find out if was an ai image for the players, and he wouldn't have made that fun memory.
AI takes away potential in more ways than one.
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My even shorter review:
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this reminded me that old Chuck Jones comic in which he encourages young artists to find what works for them instead of trying to fit in.
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I always found this such a silly argument. Imagine eating a pizza and thoroughly enjoying it but changing your perception of taste willingly depending on how it was made. It's admitting you are judging art based on everything except the actual piece, which sounds the opposite of what art is about.
It's like in olden times when they judged a piece depending on the artists birth and status.
Not to say there isn't a lot of slop out there that definitely belongs in the dumpster, but it's hard to take someone seriously when they judge all of it broadly on this kind of basis.
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Pizza tastes better, even retroactively, if you find out someone you love made it for you.
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I went over this in an other comment a bit.
Real painting > digital painting > AI
I associate more value depending on skill level. All I'm saying is: if the pizza only taste like shit once you hear the opposite, the bad taste is in your head.
I do get that having the feeling one way leaves place to having the same type of feeling the other way. I guess it feels different though, hard to explain. It's a valid sentiment in the end, it just feels a bit petty from my viewpoint.
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Listening to music and finding out it was made by ai ruins my experience because i imagine the greasy lazy thief behind the grift. I want my music by real musicians with a personal connection to their craft, not a good for nothing trying to make a quick mindless buck, but in any case i have never heard ai music i personally liked it is usually all incredibly bland and lacking personality.
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For me, art is in the eye of the beholder (so like his initial emotional reaction, and like what I understand your point to be).
But there are also aspects that are a bit more innate to the art itself. It's sort of like a conversation, for me; if I see a piece of art I think is beautiful, and I've felt something emotional in response to it, I start to try and understand what the artist was trying to say through the work, what story they might be trying to tell, who they might be. It's a connection. They might be expressing their emotions, thoughts, or experiences, and I might be empathising with another human going through that. There's a level of trust from my side that they've put in effort and are being genuine.
If I find out it's AI art... Well, there's no conversation there, is there? Nobody made that picture. Nobody is communicating anything. Nobody is considering how a viewer might feel. Nobody has created anything. A machine has, unfeelingly, mashed a bunch of actual art together, and now the result is in front of me. If I know beforehand, I won't bother looking. If I've felt emotions, I've been lied to and will look away.
You can feel differently, of course. I'm just explaining how I feel about art. I don't enjoy being lied to.
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It's a fair point. When I think about it, I come to the conclusion that at first I both consume them the same way, as pictures on a screen. So they start at both the same baseline (my immediate enjoyment) and learning something was done in a more complicated method or has a deeper meaning just adds to that baseline, but it to never will go down for the opposite.
I attribute more value to human made art, just like how I attribute more value to hand painted pieces compared to digital ones. I just don't change my opinion towards the negative.
I also think there's an error when assuming something can't communicate because it was made partly or completely with AI. The GoP uses it to communicate hate for instance, that part mostly transcends the medium imo (even if again, the medium can add to it at times). I see AI as a tool, I don't see it as the AI creating the piece.
Obviously, 3/4 of the scene is smut so it's not like much high level communication is going on most times though lol. I'm selective in what I actually consider art, I wouldn't call most outputs art just to be clear (or what the GOP is doing for that matter).
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AI art is the Tostino's pizza of art.
it looks like pizza, but it doesn't really taste like pizza, and not a single human touched it
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Alright let me make an analog for this - Because context does absolutely matter.
You are buying shoes. (... And have probably already made the connection)
You find a dooooope pair of sneaks. The colors, the lines, the fit. Perfect.
Then you find out your sneakers were made by Ari in a town that has no running water, people shit in ditches, and the median income of a family of 4 buys enough rice to feed 3 people. And then there's Ari. Ari is 7 and has been working for 2 years already.
How those kicks looking? Do they envoke the same joy?
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Cool if the context doesn't matter I'll sell you a replica of the state of David for the price of the original!
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Same. Art is in the eye of the beholder. I for example find Pollock just shit but there are those that pay actual money to see what a baby elephant could've made. All that modern art is talentless shit to me. But there are people out there who will vehemently defend it. There people out there who will pay money to go to a talentless art museum and come out feeling smug that they could recognise a piece made by some person who just had the luck to know the right people.
We all have our opinions about art, but they are just that, opinions. People will continue to throw shit at a wall or use period blood to drip onto a canvas and attach some grand message to it in order to call it art, and people will just generate a prompt and paste it into an AI art generator then share whatever looks pleasing to them.
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Art is in the eye of the beholder but ai shit is not art... It is just tech corporate spam clogging up the internet.
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Gotta say, he lost me at the talent-skill thing. Being good at any arts requires something fundamental. Practise is absolutely an important part of it, but art, music, storytelling, anything creative, either you got it or you dont.
Edit : is the down arrows because talent isnt real, or because I said he and mistakenly did a misgendering?
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Some of the best artists I know are people who started out without a single iota of talent, but they practiced for long enough that they got good. I reckon that talent probably does exist, but it's a far smaller component than many believe. Hard word beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
People who are most likely to emphasise talent in art tend to be people who wish they were good at art, but aren't willing (or able) to put the time into improving; it feels oddly reassuring to tell oneself that it's pointless to try if you don't start out with talent, rather than being realistic and saying "I wish I were good at art, but I am choosing not to invest in that skill because it's not one of my priorities"
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Maybe, but i feel the amount of effort I put in before giving up should have yielded a lot more results than it did. I dont want to come across as bitter, because its just art, but i really do think some people just cant.
If Mozart can be writing unrivalled symphonies at 8 years old you know. Most people will play a single instrument for longer than he was alive and come nowhere close, and its frustrating to learn that the general consensus is that this is simply because everyone else just needs to try harder.
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I think it's more nuanced, like unless of a particular handicap pratice will make you good. But being exceptional requires something that is a closely guarded secret by the gods. So yeah, like the succesful actor on a talk show talking about working hard to get at your dreams sorts of diminish the hard work of anyone who doesn't reach the top. So yeah, talent is honed but exceptional talent is not.
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Skilled people are not born that way. You can be predisposed towards certain skills, and you can even argue that only some people can be the best at something, but all those can do is decrease the amount of time it takes to become skilled. No matter what, you can learn to do something. You can learn to draw. You can learn to write. You can learn to tell stories. You can learn to be creative. You can become skilled at most things. You may not be able to be the best, but practice will always get you closer to best than predisposition. You are literally not just born with it.
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I don't think this is worth a downvote, but I do think you are fundamentally wrong.
either you got it or you don't
People who are born with natural talents, that others can't hope to match with practice, are definitely real, but they are VERY rare. Think people like Mozart or Picasso. People who just start out naturally understanding an art or skill in ways that others have to LEARN to achieve.
But "talent" for most people is more akin to "liking" a pursuit, rather than being naturally good at it. They GET good at it by DOING it constantly, because it's what they like doing. In this context of "talent", "talented" people can absolutely be matched by "untalented" people, who put in the same work and effort, but driven by other motivations. This is what people mean when they say "You can do anything you set your mind to."
And yes, this includes creativity. Creativity is a skill that most creative people had to WORK on to get good at.
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You are absolutely correct. I have spent a lot of time around adults that can just pick up a brush without any training or whatsoever and do a legitimately good piece of art. Artist mistakenly feel that because they kept grinding that their output is a result of their work alone. However if they are missing that core piece of talent, it doesn't matter how much they practice. You will never be able to create visual art at the level of someone with the spark.
It's weird how all visual artists believe that this is true for singers, but never believe it's true for themselves.
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I don't think this is worth a downvote, but I do think you are fundamentally wrong.
either you got it or you don't
Please who are born with natural talents, that others can't hope to match with practice, are definitely real, but they are VERY rare. Think people like Mozart or Picasso. People who just start out naturally understanding an art or skill in ways that others have to LEARN to achieve.
But "talent" for most people is more akin to "liking" a pursuit, rather than being naturally good at it. They GET good at it by DOING it constantly, because it's what they like doing. In this context of "talent", "talented" people can absolutely be matched by "untalented" people, who put in the same work and effort, but driven by other motivations. This is what people mean when they say "You can do anything you set your mind to."
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When I mentioned this in the last posting i was thoroughly downvoted, my downs were mostly artists adamant that anyone can be great at art if they just put in the effort. Many claimed to have full aphantasia and more or less tried to pin it on my inability to draw to work ethic or being too hard on my great art that I never presented to anyone.
I think it's a general condition that most artists project their abilities and believe that anyone can do what they're doing.
Like right there with FridaySteve@lemmy.world's downvote on this comment, something that actually happened as was clearly reported to me in a previous post.
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To me, thins kinda screams of "I suffered so you should too". There are good arguments against AI art, but this one doesn't resonate with me in any capacity.
It is good that AI has made art more accessible. Art is meant for everyone, and anything that makes it more democratic is great.
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You must have stopped reading halfway, because he makes your argument, too.
He acknowledges that it makes art more accessible, by removing the tedium so that artists can do the creative work.
If their "creative work" begins and ends with prompting the AI, the prompter is basically saying that all of the work of art making is tedium.
Does that not resonate with you ?
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I did read it to the end, I just don't believe it's quite the same argument.
The Oatmeal seems to insist that while AI is helpful to eliminate the boring tasks, art is still a product of effort and struggle. They even later make an argument that these "boring, administrative" tasks might be an important part of creative process, that taking it away means taking something away from the art itself.
And AI art is not just text prompts and pictures. There are AI tools that allow you to draw basic lines and the AI will fill in and complete the hard parts, so you could male your vision come true without proper artistic skill. This is good, because not everyone can dedicate themselves to art classes, not everyone is talented enough (and I insist that talent is part of building a good skill, unlike The Oatmeal who seems to emphasize effort over gift), yet everyone wants and needs to create beauty.
To me, the main purpose of art is to communicate our vision, our thoughts, our ideas. Until recently, the ability to do so was limited by the talent, by that skill ceiling. Those who excelled were heard, those who did not were not. By assisting people with things they don't know how to do well, we can amplify their voices and their visions, which can help us build a more active and inclusionary dialogue.
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I read the whole thing, and no it didn't resonate with me. I'm not a middle manager who sees himself as a story teller. Neither am I an art afficionado.
I don't have a visceral emptiness that overwhelms me when I learn an image that was interesting was generated by AI. It didn't come from a talented human? Who cares? Does it help to better articulate a thought or idea than the person trying to create it could do on their own? Then it's ok with me.
There was a very reasonable web comic that made a clear point today in the Palestine community and rather than agree with the message and see that it was much better presented as a comic, it turned into "this smells like it could be slop!" People say "oh I wish it was just MS paint or shitty ppt because at least then YOU made it" but I would have to disagree and say it can detract from the message when you turn out something that looks like shit.
There's more to the utility of AI art than minutiae. I would be willing to entertain the argument that I don't want to see AI art in a museum, but while I find the oatmeal's take to be a well considered perspective, a fair bit of the blanket hatred surrounding AI art applications borders on deranged.
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Its not really about the suffering, its about the journey that is unique to you that you cannot possibly share with others since you've never taken it, and so it reflects in the art you bring.
The thing about ai is that if it was perfect to make the image in your head appear on a screen, is that youd notice actually that the image in your head would be shit (its ok). Youd experience this if you did any art, and it takes both an artistic mind with good artistic skills to come up with an effective "medium" or "tool" "image" to transfer your idea to another human being's mind. It takes a fluency that can't be grasped unless you pick up one of the tools you'd use to make any art.
And the suffering part comes if you are forcing yourself do get the result you want. You can learn art without suffering, without feeling ashamed at your lack of skill if you arm yourself with patience, something that ai confirms to the audience and other people you don't have, and so can't possibly make any contribution to what we understand as art.
The suffering is brought on by this lack of patience about thinking HOW every stroke has to be measured and precise in like a Van Gogh's painting (pointillism) to the pov and line art of that famous dio vs jonathan confrontation in jojo's bizarre adventure, each form of art taking inspiration of art before it that an art enjoyer might be familiar with. But it doesn't have to be, but it is since time in this world time is money, and less is afforded to us for every waste.
I am not shaming btw, I only learned to communicate in an adversarial way soz.
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Oh, I know the struggle - it's not that I never made any art whatsoever. What's in the artist's head is less of an image and more of an impression to be put into words or lines.
And I believe that, given more truly free time and less of the simple mind-eating distractions, much more people would embark on an artistic journey, even in the age of AI. It's just a very human thing to do.
But while we're at it, we have what we have, and sometimes having a medium to express yourself right now is better than only having hope to get the tools you need.
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There have been painters who are blind who made great paintings. People without hands who learned how to paint with their feet.
Art was already accessable to everyone, ai drones say that it wasn't to feel better.
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There are different kinds of accessibility. While I admire people with disabilities who were so dedicated in the pursuit of art, there's more to it than pure desire.
Art takes gift. It takes a lot of time to make it into talent, skill. It commonly takes a lot of money for the courses, materials, etc. And in the modern world, not everyone can realistically have or afford all that.
When I talk of accessibility, I don't mean "with a ton of effort, every person can technically become at least a bad artist". I mean "everyone needs to create, yet not everyone can dedicate their life to it".
AI art allows us to communicate our visions and ideas, which is to me the most important parts of art overall, without having to grind through art classes. This, in turn, means we can hear and see new voices, ones that previously were never heard.
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