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The vast majority of people I know who dislike AI art (including myself) are people who love tech, but hate how this tech has been trained on the art of human artists without credit or compensation… and then on top of that it’s being used to replace those artists and reduce their job prospects! It’s easy to see why this sucks if you take a step back.

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AI art is just art. Most is bad (same as without AI). AI is just another tool in the toolbox. Shared link below in a different comment. My fav video series that heavily uses AI (images, video, lip sync, sound). I enjoy it and I think it has artistic merit

https://x.com/dmarcos/status/1848835003079397646

Even with AI, one needs talent and skill to create something noteworthy. Just the standard of what’s compelling will change. I think people capable to adapt to the new tech will do fine creatively and financially.

>AI art is just art

Not necessarily. You need to define "art" and most likely "creativity". As you have said AI is a tool, I assume you're not anthropomorphising the model itself as an artistic being.

So it's down to creativity/skill. I would say someone saying "create me an image of a person on a lake" has no creativity/skill at all. It may be an image, or a drawing, but it's not art. In the same way I can draw a stick person - it's a drawing without creativity/skill, so it's just a drawing, not art.

To make the most of AI tools you need to understand how they work. Just prompting to me is just like using clipart or stock images. For interesting stuff people are doing search for ComfyUI tutorials on YouTube. It's a skill as like in any other digital art tool.

I agree that AI can be used to make real art, but that's not the issue at hand. None of that addresses the argument I made, that it was trained on the work of real human artists without compensation, and will be used to replace many of the jobs of those same artists.

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