idk I think oop has a point, lots of people on here seem to have reactionary protestant brained hangups about what is and isn’t real art. It goes back to the like, max nordau with his entartete kunst (remember what happened to him). makes me deeply skeptical of anyone criticizing art as being lesser and harmful because of its form or presentation. And I thought 100 years ago we mostly settled this debate on the side of weird avant garde/experimental art.
I mean, with weird avant garde/experimental art you have a person making decisions about what they’re making, how they’re doing it, where they’re displaying it, etc. There’s intentionality to it - the artist has to visualize what they’re going to do before they do it, and in that process the differences between one experimental artist who paints their canvasses all a single color and a different person doing something similar become alighted.
With generated images, however, the entire decision-making process has been offloaded to a machine, which by definition does not understand what it’s doing or why, cannot have intentionality, and can only give a weighted average of the decisions that other artists have made in the past. From the “artist”'s point of view, you have an idea of what you want to see and you put in keywords related to it, and then you cycle through generated images until you get to one that’s “close enough”. Your input on the production of the image itself is completely alienated from it - you’re like a producer telling someone what to paint, and then telling them to try again if you don’t like it.
I mean, we have avant garde art where the author only transforms the raw materials very lightly, the most famous and controversial example perhaps being a certain porcelain fountain.
Also for AI specifically, depending on the model the artist has a pretty significant degree of control over various parameters of the generation, e.g. by ‘fine tuning’ and grafting your own data on top of the existing weights. It’s certainly not just typing in different words. In the end I don’t really see how it’s fundamentally different from an artist applying various algorithmic filters and other transforms in Photoshop or whatever.
idk I think oop has a point, lots of people on here seem to have reactionary protestant brained hangups about what is and isn’t real art. It goes back to the like, max nordau with his entartete kunst (remember what happened to him). makes me deeply skeptical of anyone criticizing art as being lesser and harmful because of its form or presentation. And I thought 100 years ago we mostly settled this debate on the side of weird avant garde/experimental art.
I mean, with weird avant garde/experimental art you have a person making decisions about what they’re making, how they’re doing it, where they’re displaying it, etc. There’s intentionality to it - the artist has to visualize what they’re going to do before they do it, and in that process the differences between one experimental artist who paints their canvasses all a single color and a different person doing something similar become alighted.
With generated images, however, the entire decision-making process has been offloaded to a machine, which by definition does not understand what it’s doing or why, cannot have intentionality, and can only give a weighted average of the decisions that other artists have made in the past. From the “artist”'s point of view, you have an idea of what you want to see and you put in keywords related to it, and then you cycle through generated images until you get to one that’s “close enough”. Your input on the production of the image itself is completely alienated from it - you’re like a producer telling someone what to paint, and then telling them to try again if you don’t like it.
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I mean, we have avant garde art where the author only transforms the raw materials very lightly, the most famous and controversial example perhaps being a certain porcelain fountain.
Also for AI specifically, depending on the model the artist has a pretty significant degree of control over various parameters of the generation, e.g. by ‘fine tuning’ and grafting your own data on top of the existing weights. It’s certainly not just typing in different words. In the end I don’t really see how it’s fundamentally different from an artist applying various algorithmic filters and other transforms in Photoshop or whatever.
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How is it different? The artist is presented with a generated image and can choose to keep it and publish or discard it.
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