This is not going to be popular on here but I'm going to say it anyway: AI is not the art stealing monster that you think it is. Honestly it reminds me a lot of the 2000s when digital art became more common. You had a ton of traditional artists saying that digital!art isn't "real" art and that it - ThreadSky

zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social • 3 days ago

This is not going to be popular on here but I'm going to say it anyway: AI is not the art stealing monster that you think it is. Honestly it reminds me a lot of the 2000s when digital art became more common. You had a ton of traditional artists saying that digital!art isn't "real" art and that it

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zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social•3 days ago

required no real skills. At the same time there was almost a crisis of digital artists posting their art and it being reposted everywhere. The reality is that traditional art was not replaced by digital art and digital artists became more savvy at avoiding uncredited posts and monetizing their art.

zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social•3 days ago

And the result of this huge cultural shift was that way more people were able to access art and make art professionally or semi-professionally. Because before digital art was a thing the barrier to entry was that every piece of work required physical supplies. A canvas alone is like $20 for a larger

zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social•3 days ago

one, that’s a lot to justify if you're just practicing. On the other hand digital art is pretty easy to do if you already have a device. There are also way more artistic aids that allow people to make better creations even if they don't have a ton of technical skill. And that's good. A lot of people

zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social•3 days ago

are able to not just make but s.also consume art. Digital art opened the door to more people. I think AI (when we're talking about art specifically) will end up operating in a similar matter. Yes, the models are trained on the work of artists without their permission. However, it's not like you can

zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social•3 days ago

access the training data. And the reality is that even before ai copying the style of a particular artist was not difficult. Yes that meant paying a human but the human in question was probably not even making minimum wage. The successful artists often made prints of their art or merchandise with it

zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social•3 days ago

AI art is not this amazing thing. It's simply not good art. I've tried to use it (for me personally not for public use) in order to create character portraits for my writing. It cannot make me what I would like to see. Before trying AI, I just would've gone without or do what I am doing now and find

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