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01: A girl labeled ‘Artists’ is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says “We don’t really wanna MAKE A.I. art.”
02: A guy labeled ‘Art Enjoyers’ holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says “We don’t really wanna SEE A.I. art.”
03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says “Um … I-Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?” She is labeled ‘Shareholders’.
04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. ‘Artist Enjoyers’ Guy is now in front of her yelling “AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!” while ‘Artists’ Girl is in front of her yelling “WE’RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!”
The definition of an artist doesn’t mean you have to use a skill. This artist created an oak tree from a glass of water.
There is no correlation between effort and art.
Then why aren’t you doing it?
I want food but I am not cooky, doesn’t mean that ordering pizza makes you a chef.
I want to go but I am not a car person, doesn’t mean that calling a uber makes you the driver.
I am doing. And I’m using AI. I don’t see why this is a problem.
Because using GenAI to call yourself an artist is like hitting play on Spotify to call yourself a musician. You’re not doing the thing, thus you are not the thing doer. A kid making turd shaped dogs with play-doh is closer to being an artist than you inputting prompt into a generator.
DJs are considered artists, and they just press play.
Granted, a one prompt AI generated image is not very impressive and is unlikely to be “good”, but it doesn’t mean it isn’t art.
Read about what DJing is, it’s more about playing the crowd, and less about playing the music. Really, do you never pay attention to anything beyond the superficial level. And DJs don’t say they are the musician, they are the DJ. Even though most DJs are also musicians.
Any DJ with a light show is not reading the crowd at all. They are just pressing play and dancing to a prearranged set.
And this kind of disdain for other people’s art is why everyone hates AI bros.
I prefer to live in reality
If you want to use AI to express yourself through art. Go ahead. You are free to express yourself.