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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!!!”

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    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.

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
          11·
          2 days ago

          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.

          • dustyData@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 day ago

            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.

                  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    1 day ago

                    Dear lord:

                    actually you know what, you know what fun thing I kind of do take a little bit of pride in. I only play my own music like, for a Deadmau5, show like every, every track that I’ve ever played in like the, maybe the last like 100 sets of mine have been Productions of my own.

                    — Deadmau5

                    You don’t even pay attention to anything you say.

                    Also:

                    I think the mistake a lot of people tend to make is saying Joel is a DJ. He’s not, hes said it multiple times. People have pointed out in this comment section and every where he’s a producer. And while he definitely enjoys the technical aspects of things for a performance, you don’t have to look far to see that yeah, most of his sets are the same. Go look at footage from all the We Are Friends shows he did, and you will see the same set over and over. He even says in this livestream he really prepares deadmau5 shows well ahead of time, meanwhile his Testpilot shows are “free wheeled” which is him doing actual mixing. (Although lets be clear, if you watch him DJ as Testpilot and know anything about Ableton, you know hes just launching clips and applying effects to put on a musical show).

                    Nothing inherently wrong with this. You’ll see the same people who complain about the Sync Button complaining about this. Bunch of old heads yelling about vinyl DJs, which I also love watching. People like Andy C are the bomb and watching him is just such a sight to behold. But at the end of the day, I don’t see the people complaining getting their names on the line up. Sorry not sorry.

                    — T.E.I. from the video’s comment section. (emphasis is mine)

                    All of those people involved in your reply. Real artist.

                    You, inputting a prompt into a genAI, not an artist.

                    If you showed me an image of an AI generated image of your making, it would not communicate anything about you, your history, context, values, meaning or anything remotely human to relate to. Going to an EDM show where a DJ just pushes the play button involves far more artistry than any amount of data centers burning tons of fossil fuels to make one shitty picture.