• haywire@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    AI generated content is great and all but it drowns out everything else on there. Anyone can type a prompt and generate a great looking image with a couple of attempts these days it seems.

    The people spending days, weeks, months and more on a piece can’t keep up.

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      It’s almost like low quality mechanisation is something that should be resisted. I wonder where I’ve heard that before…

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          And birthed impressionism as a result. These are tools, artists will adapt.

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          Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented

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            If youre implying that every gallery in the world is rushing to exhibit every submitted ai picture with no curation or quality filter, name 5.

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        As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of a blindness, an imbecility, but had also the air of a vengeance. I do not believe, or at least I do not wish to believe, in the absolute success of such a brutish conspiracy, in which, as in all others, one finds both fools and knaves; but I am convinced that the ill-applied developments of photography, like all other purely material developments of progress, have contrib­uted much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce. It is nonetheless obvious that this industry, by invading the territories of art, has become art’s most mor­tal enemy, and that the confusion of their several func­tions prevents any of them from being properly fulfilled.

        ― Charles Baudelaire, On Photography, from The Salon of 1859

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          have contrib­uted much to the impoverishment of the French artistic genius, which is already so scarce.

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        7 months ago

        I don’t know for what product that’d be desirable. What did you have in mind?

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      there’s some stuff image generating AI just can’t do yet. it just can’t understand some things. a big problem seems to be referring to the picture itself, like position or its border. another problem is combining things that usually don’t belong together, like a skin of sky. those are things a human artist/designer does with ease.

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        It‘s even hard to impossible to generate the image of a person doing a handstand. All models assume a rightside-up person.

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          This hasn’t been true for months at least. You really have to check week to week when dealing with things in this field.

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        think of an episode of any animated series with countless handmade backgrounds, good luck generating those with any sort of consistency or accuracy and you will be calling for an artist who can actually take instructions and iterate

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      7 months ago

      The same way people using shovels can’t keep up with an excavator.

      Technology changes the world. This is nothing new.