My favorite quotation from this article is pure and simple the difference that separates human-created art from AI-created art:
“‘I mean, that’s what makes me want to be alive,’ says the artist, referring to the process of artistic creation. The battle is worth fighting ‘because that’s what being human is to me.'”
So you can create some new visual creation fast and close to free, and not have to pay someone for it because AI did it for you … but zero care or thought went into that creation. Actually, negative care and thought went into the creation because the AI was “taught” by memorizing how to copy real human artists (none of whom were paid … yes, unfortunately, Adobe Firefly I’m talking to you too).
Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters would mean what exactly, if created by AI and without a thought of depicting peasants at the time period from Van Gogh’s perspective? Or maybe it could never be created by AI, because it involves a personal perspective and a subjective one at that, and then also one’s own unique style of painting. Wow, just writing that makes me feel sad for all these generative AI art creations … collages based on prompts, but never able to have true feeling or perspective behind them. Great for a free image for a blog post, maybe an interesting thing to hang on your wall to note its derivation, but never something to look at and marvel, and think about, and discuss … because what is there really to discuss? Viva la real artists!
PS Today’s AI Image (“Van Gogh’s The Potato Eaters“) is brought to you by missing thumbs, glitches in hands, and what is that bowl/non-bowl on the left?! Also, good thing there’s a candle in a pot.
