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by wettico
1400 days ago
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"The generator learned from other images – the same as any human artist might." A lot of people seem to make this comparison, but I don't think it's fair. It's wrong. A computer is capable of ingesting/processing and "learning" from images at a rate no human can possibly come close to matching. To elaborate, it is not actually learning in the way we normally think of it, as its "brain" is completely different from a human's brain. It is doing something entirely different that should have its own word. Human artists learn from other human artists' work. An AI does something else. It's also worth noting that the art the AI was trained on was posted online when the technology didn't exist (or if it did in some form it was not in the state it is in now). So an artist having posted their art online for public consumption can't be equated with somehow consenting to its consumption by a web scraper / AI. |
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But it's also great that AI artists can learn from more examples in a few minutes than a human artist might see in lifetime.
To say that's "not actually learning in the way we normally think of it" is superficially true, but it doesn't mean it's "not actually learning", or necessarily any worse than typical learning. It's so new, & we barely understand fully how it works or what its limits are. It might be better in many relevant & valuable aspects!