Except there are artists available at all price ranges. Usually with the expensive ones you’re paying for experience and/or prestige. There are less experienced/prestigious artists that will gladly take your $60 commission.
Also, art isn’t a necessity. It is a luxury and by definition always will be, especially custom art commissioned by you. The stance of the people behind AI art is founded on the notion that you need art so it can benefit from automation in the same way food does. But you don’t need art. It’s the capstone of Maslow’s pyramid. If you’re at a level of privilege where art starts seeming like a necessity, you can afford $260 for it.
I’m not even strictly anti AI art. But I absolutely hate the argument that AI makes art more “accessible” or “affordable” (it was accessible/affordable before, you were just too lazy to find artists at your price range) or “reduces the barrier to entry of becoming an artist” (by which they mean you don’t actually have to learn how to make art to make it, as if that’s a good thing).
I especially hate the animosity AI artists and AI art enjoyers have toward actual artists. Portraying them as pretentious, profit driven, judgmental, etc.
Your phone too, your PC/laptop too, your car too, your meat too, your air-travel too…who cares?
Banishing “AI” won’t cure this planet. It would just slightly delay the inevitable.
It’s just the usual, easy hate for things I don’t need/like.
Except there are artists available at all price ranges. Usually with the expensive ones you’re paying for experience and/or prestige. There are less experienced/prestigious artists that will gladly take your $60 commission.
Also, art isn’t a necessity. It is a luxury and by definition always will be, especially custom art commissioned by you. The stance of the people behind AI art is founded on the notion that you need art so it can benefit from automation in the same way food does. But you don’t need art. It’s the capstone of Maslow’s pyramid. If you’re at a level of privilege where art starts seeming like a necessity, you can afford $260 for it.
So I take it you are anti “AI art”?
How do you feel about pirating? I see AI art as pretty much the same.
I’m not even strictly anti AI art. But I absolutely hate the argument that AI makes art more “accessible” or “affordable” (it was accessible/affordable before, you were just too lazy to find artists at your price range) or “reduces the barrier to entry of becoming an artist” (by which they mean you don’t actually have to learn how to make art to make it, as if that’s a good thing).
I especially hate the animosity AI artists and AI art enjoyers have toward actual artists. Portraying them as pretentious, profit driven, judgmental, etc.
Also the art bots are terrible for the environment. Just sucking up juice and clean water for soulless output.
Your phone too, your PC/laptop too, your car too, your meat too, your air-travel too…who cares? Banishing “AI” won’t cure this planet. It would just slightly delay the inevitable.
It’s just the usual, easy hate for things I don’t need/like.
AI isn’t art