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 - ThreadSky

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

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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

zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social•3 days ago

a celebrity or model image instead. That is way less work than crafting a prompt for what I want. I actually tried to use AI to help me write parts of the story and it was actually so terrible I ended up just writing it myself. AI isn't good. I actually think it's best application is to tasks where

zainabdianpoetry.bsky.social•3 days ago

there just wouldn't be art previously. I used to do a ton of image editing and I would spend so much time making something transparent I'd basically have to go pixel by pixel. That wasn't "art" it was unnecessary labor. Now removing an image's background is one click. It took me years of practice

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