[synapticpaint]

I don't think that AI image generation in its current form replaces human creativity. You still need a human to guide the process, compose the image, judge the output, etc. What's being automated is the manual, traditional process of painting and drawing.

I see this technology as more analogous to hand writing books -> printing. I predict that more people, not less, will be involved in creative industries related to visual arts (design, film, illustration, animation, etc.) as a result of this technology becoming more accessible.

[JoeAltmaier]

That's skipping over all the skill and training needed to draw, well, what most of us are unable to draw.

We can all write words with a pencil. That's not the same as drawing an original character or scene with skill.

[UncleEntity]

The photography industry would like to have a word with you.

Or all the (now dead) people who were saying the same things about photography.

[JoeAltmaier]

Yeah and photographing art and claiming it is yours, is surely copyright infringement.

These disingenuous arguments are not taking the conversation forward.

[jasonjmcghee]

I don’t think that was the point parent comment was making. I took it as all the skills you used to need for photography, like developing photos. Now you can point and click with a phone.

But everything else that goes into a good photograph, like what to use as your subject, the composition, post processing, etc is still important.

[JoeAltmaier]

Sorry, I retract.

Now I'm just confused. How is photography not just what I indicated - something involving skill and art that it's illegal to copy and claim it's yours?

[jasonjmcghee]

Original comparison was discussing how writing words with a pencil that exist already and aren't your original creation isn't drawn art, and a response was given that seemed to imply photographs were pictures capturing something that they didn't create, implicitly prompting the suggestion that just because you didn't create the subject of the art doesn't mean it's not art.

If you take a picture of a stone fountain and claim the photograph is art, is it copyright infringement because you didn't sculpt the fountain?