[kouiskas]

On this debate people are confusing artistic illustration skills with creating art. An artist created this artwork at the state fair, not the AI. The artist had a vision, directed the AI towards that outcome and selected the result they wanted.

Some very famous artist exposed in museums today don’t physically hold the tools that « make » the artwork, they direct a team of assistants who act as their hands. Some like to hold the paintbrush themselves but they don’t have to and that’s why it’s not a criteria for whether they are the artist or not.

Much like a movie director directing a team to create a movie doesn’t hold the mic boom or deal with the photography themselves. They orchestrate other humans into creating the piece of art they have envisioned.

This is exactly the same. Instead of a known visual artist directing art students to fabricate the artwork they’ve envisioned, the artist directs the AI.

[zyx321]

Getting good AI art requires finding the right prompt and sorting through potentially hundreds of pictures. Picking out the one that embodies your idea (or sometimes the one that stands out among the rest that you would never have expected from that input prompt) is the way you turn AI output into art.

[et-al]

See also "generative art" which has been around for a few decades. There's still a human curating + tweaking the end result.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art

[lm28469]

> The artist had a vision, directed the AI towards that outcome and selected the result they wanted.

And a monkey randomly pressing keys on a typewriter will eventually type the entire Bible

The point is the barrier to entry and the skills required dropped, it dropped so far that you now need no skills besides writing a sentence and clicking on an image. We've became the proverbial typewriter monkey

[jackblemming]

I guess by this logic, Elon Musk really is the real life Iron Man.

[kouiskas]

I’m talking about concrete examples of well-known artists, let’s not confuse this with the delusions of sociopathic CEOs taking credit for other people’s work and constructing a fictional vision a posteriori for the media. There’s nothing artistic there.