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by ori_b 33 days ago
If I need to spell it out for you: no artistic 'tool' has yet attempted to automate the thought that goes into art. Would you consider someone an artist if all they did was hire someone off fiverr?
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Sure it has: automatic exposition and focus, HDR image blending... These used to require more thought and are now done for you. You still sometime override it, and an artist more often than a non-artist.

A tool is let to make a set of choices, but there is some control: you can prompt an AI to draw a white animal, a white bird or white swan — if you get a white horse with wings and a beak on any of the latter ones, we could say that AI is putting more thought, but at the moment, it wouldn't and we'd call it broken.

???

This is an insane take. Once again, does hiring someone on fiverr to draw for me make me an artist?

Depends on the set-up. Does you setting the stage, costumes and directing the photoshoot done by someone from fiverr with good camera and knowing how to use it not make you one?