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by tshadley
1238 days ago
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My initial definition was "like a super-humanly talented artist": this is very different from a human being who also happens to be an artist. Stable Diffusion does only art with text-prompting well, nothing else, and will take a very different "mental" route to creation as a human. But nevertheless it still creates "super-humanly talented" art because it is widely recognized as incredibly good, few artists can do this as well, probably none can do it with comparable range, and certainly no one can match its speed. Therefore its effect on society is as if a super-humanly talented artist could be effortlessly cloned. Where is the laughable conclusion that requires me to force a straight face? What is laughable is that these abilities could come from interpolation or collage (not your claim but the plaintiff's). The only way these abilities could occur is if Stable Diffusion can represent image and text very similar to the way human brains comprehend them. The argument here is simple: what are the odds that StableDiffusion/DNNs have hit on a representational method that is totally different from human brains yet yields the same recognition, praise and admiration for the artist from everyone who sees it? Seems to me close to 0. |
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I very much disagree. Pretty much any halfway decent artist (say, anyone able to at least caricature recognizable people) is able to produce this kind of imitative art, when/if they are aiming for this type of copying. I've seen nothing coming out of SD that I couldn't expect to find on DeviantArt, at least if I commissioned it specifically. Most human artists of course don't do this, since people usually don't like reproductions (apart from posters) or copying others' style. Note as well the huge problem SD has with consistent fine details (especially text, but also often hands and even faces).
Of course, I fully agree on the speed factor (and would add scale/cost) in which SD without a question is far beyond humanity, obviously. That is a meaningful difference that is very likely to affect markets like decorative prints and other low-value art.
Perhaps this basic disagreement (which is of course ultimately subjective, unless someone is going to do a blind taste test) explains the difference of opinions for the rest of the points.