[jameshart]

The vast majority of human generated art is hideous or bland. Artists throw away bad ideas or sketches that didn’t work all the time. Plus you should see most of the stuff that gets pasted up on the walls at an average middle School.

[ROTMetro]

Hard disagree. The average middle school picture will have certain aspects exaggerated giving you insights into the minds eye of the creator, how they see the world, what details they focus on. There is no such minds eye behind AI art so it's incredibly boring and mundane, no matter how good a filter you apply on top of it's fundamental lack of soul or anything interesting to observe in the picture beyond surface level. It's great for making art for assets for businesses to use, it's almost a perfect match, as they are looking to have no controversial soul to the assets they use, but lots of pretty bubblegum polish.

[antipotoad]

Perhaps most of the AI art out there (that honestly represents itself as such) is boring and mundane, but after many hours exploring latent space, I assure you that diffusion models can be wielded with creativity and vision.

Prompting is an art and a science in its own right, not to speak of all the ways these tools can be strung together.

In any case, everything is a remix.

[dwringer]

I have to agree, the act of coming up with a prompt is one and the same with providing "insights into the minds eye of the creator, how they see the world, what details they focus on" - two people will describe the same scene with completely different prompts.

[jameshart]

And the vast majority of professionally produced artwork is for business use. It’s packaging design or illustration or corporate graphics or logos or whatever.

I don’t get the objection.