[nickelpro]

The author has succeeded only in arguing one meaningless image factory produces images they find more aesthetically pleasing than another meaningless image factory.

The framing implies they understand little of art at all; beyond gurgling and clapping like a child at the colors and shapes they find most stimulating.

[kakapo5672]

It seems we have found the One True Artist on this thread, the gatekeeper and judge for all that is worthy. Humble obedience in thy presence.

[jellyroll42]

Someone pushing back against a provincial and fundamentally incorrect definition of art is not gatekeeping.

[brantmv]

Why say this in such a rude way?

[dwb]

Because powerful interests are trying to hijack human creative pursuits in the interest of profit. None of the images in the post are art.

[cluckindan]

Found the zealot.

Is true art a hermetic endeavour which must be gate-kept to seal out the lesser folk?

If so, then why lambast the lesser folk over their ignorance of the secret knowledge?

[zelphirkalt]

I don't think it is some secret. There are many who say that art is not just a painting itself, but in the process of making it, and the motivation and goals behind it. Generative "AI" has none of that. It does not labor like a human would. It has no motivation, because it is not a thinking being. It has no intention in making a digital output. It just works. It has no meaning by the process of creating. Some Michelangelo working on something amazing for years, that's something that has meaning.

It is also not inventive. It's rehashing and regurgitating. That point is a bit muddy, because many humans do that too. But ask a generative "AI" to make something better than what it has learned from and new, and you will probably be disappointed.

I am not an art buff, but I can sort of see, why one wouldn't consider it proper art.

[nativeit]

> Is true art a hermetic endeavour which must be gate-kept to seal out the lesser folk?

Kind of. If everyone on the planet can paint the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling, then it’s not anything special anymore is it? Especially if it reduces the process to asking the world’s most prolific counterfeit machine to do it for you.

[graemefawcett]

Besides, if everyone could paint the Sisten Chapel, then we'd have works equivalent to the Sistene Chapell everywhere.

Why is that a problem?

That to me sounds like the opposite of a problem.

Used effectively, these tools are elevators, enhancing the capabilities of everything they touch.

Telling them to paint you a picture results in the word you envision.

Painting a picture with them is how you see mine

[graemefawcett]

Is art then just the outcome? The artifact that was produced?

What's your criteria then for who is allowed to produce art? If allowing everyone to create it lessens its value such that it becomes worthless, there must be a cutoff.

If your goal is to ensure the continuity of human expression, limiting who is allowed to create art and narrowly defining art to great works kind of misses the point.

[only-one1701]

People are aren’t entitled to get entry into every space they want to with no effort!

[andy99]

Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year's gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake we know it's not to be. That for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably. Happy birthday? No such thing.