I’ve always explained it like this:
Every time you press that button, you’ll get an image. Maybe even a really good image. But it will never be the image you had in mind.
But sometimes you’re restricted by your own imagination and the image produced reflects your desire stronger than your vision. The ability to consistently generate meaning and purposeful images with generative ai is an art in itself. It’s just a different medium for artists to use.
I’ve only found that true for days I am prompting without a specific image in mind. The second something specific gets in my head, and even hours of fiddling and tweaking prompts won’t get the result that satisfies me (though I might get a bunch of cool tangential output along the way).
Same can be said about pre-industrial skilled physical labourers. Progress won’t change for you, you have to change for it
I don’t understand what this means.
I believe they are saying that the skill it takes a real artist to produce art is something to envy.
yea, specifically I envy the ability to form an original idea and then using your skills to create something exactly how you want it to be. Must be nice. Using those AIs is just unsatisfying, it’s never your thing, never your style and never your idea, never your vision, never your art – even if it might look kinda cool sometimes.
I tried really hard to “create” an older Version of Daria (from the MTV cartoon, so not even an original idea cuz I cannot form those) standing in front of a billboard in a slightly dystopian environment. Despite numerous attempts of prompting, the best I got was this hyper-attractive girl in a green jacket.
Art is a language. And artists are communicating throught art. You will never be able to communicate your art to an AI with text because it needs art to communicate
Atleast thats what i belive
Also, all of the time that people spend tweaking their prompts could just as easily be time spent learning to create their own art. The distance between absolute beginner and competent artist isn’t as vast as some people would like to believe. It’s just intimidating to a lot of people to get up the will to even try.
Nah dude, I can draw somewhat competently, but it takes a lot of time and dedication to get there. Tweaking prompts is orders of magnitudes easier and quicker than actually drawing something neverming learning to draw something.
I was awful at drawing and painting and now I’m not. I’ve walked that path, and I’m glad I spend the time learning those skills. I much prefer creating whatever I want to as opposed to pecking a word at a time, trying to coax something vaguely like it from an algorithm. That seems sad to me.
Prompting an AI to make something cohesive in art or music is a skill in itself. In the future it will be about who can prompt better. AI is taking the hand eye coordination out of these arts, and making it all about who can be more creative.
Think of all the people who can’t physically draw or paint due to disability. Now they can create these kind of arts with only their thoughts. It opens so many doors for people.
You can’t stop progress, but you shouldn’t be sad about it. There will always be a place for non AI art. It’s just that the people who embrace the technology are going to have insane output compared to traditional artists.
I find that even with the best diffusion models, replication and character sets are virtually impossible. Also text does not work.
