[NaN1352]

What’s interesting to me is how this only works because of prior art.

BUT, when prior art will be AI-assisted if not 99% generated art, from a pool of prior human art ever so slowly diminishing… where is this going?

For one, "art" can only lessen in value. Perhaps physical art will grow in value as digital art’s "made by without AI" tag becomes unprovable and meaningless.

I think it’s bad. Whomever provides these tools is not refilling the pool of prior human art, only muddying it up. Therefore everything will converge. It was quite obvious already the way eg. most webapps nowadays have the same boring design… but this is worse.

But I don’t know it must be the inevitable evolution, perhaps this is how we will end our differences… as human’s "collective mind" becomes more and more evident.

[Thorentis]

As an accelerationist, I can see an upside. Human culture has been in decline for decades, with mainstream art (of all kinds) rapidly declining in creativity and value. There are always exceptions, but I think this was and is the trend.

This AI trend will turn our attention back to what it truly means to be an artist. From the muddy waters of AI art will shine the true works of art that only humans are capable of producing. This will raise the barrier to entry and increase true arts value. This imo will be a good thing.

[rwmj]

Humans are still picking the AI-generated images they like, so there is still human input.

[wraptile]

Also most AI art that is published is retouched and edited. Until it's not of course.

[thomasahle]

> I think it’s bad. Whomever provides these tools is not refilling the pool of prior human art, only muddying it up.

What's the worst that can happen? AI art becomes too boring? That will just benefit human artists who can do something new and interesting.

Online art getting "muddied up" with AI art is only a problem for companies seeking to train a new model. But I trust they'll figure it out just fine.

[joe_the_user]

This could be a problem but it seems to like Adobe and other stock image owner may be in a better position to deal with it than companies scanning things from the open net.

Lots of arts/craft are kept alive because they form the basis for more automated processes and this may well continue with simple painting and photography.

[csomar]

Think about manual art, as the part that kick starts the compiler. Rust can compile itself, but you had to build the first compiler with C.

Art was done with Pencils, or Adobe Photoshop. Now, it's done with an AI. It's all random bits but to the humans visualizing them.