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by HWR_14 57 days ago
Does it matter? If you are opposed to buying AI art wouldn't you also be opposed to buying art from an AI ad?
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Not from principle. Marketing is hateful work and almost necessarily anti-art, so I don't care. Of course you can do it badly (for example, unironically advertise to an artist audience with terrible slop illustrations).
I don't see how replacing a photographer with AI for advertising is considerably different from replacing a photographer of a nature scene with AI. Is it just "AI is okay for commercial uses"?

But it seems more extreme when the AI is recreating the art you are considering buying.