[phreezie]

> Does it matter? Like how does it matter?

Yes, it matters to me because art is something deeply human, and I don't want to consume art made by a machine.

It doesn't matter if it's fun and beautiful, it's just that I don't want to. It's like other things in life I try to avoid, like buying sneakers made by children, or sign-up to anything Meta-owned.

[wccrawford]

That's pretty much what they said about photographs at first. I don't think you'll find a lot of people who argue that there's no art in photography now.

Asking a machine to draw a picture and then making no changes? It's still art. There was a human designing the original input. There was human intention.

And that's before they continue to use the AI tools to modify the art to better match their intention and vision.

[phreezie]

I would argue that with photography, only the tooling changed but the craft remained, while with AI the craft completely transforms in something else, in which I'm just not interested in.