FA+
Shop
AI has become a new art movement, but can it be called ART?
7 months ago
Following up my preview journal about AI.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10877519/
The school of art where I got my art degree is now teaching generative AI.
A friend of mine showed me images and didn’t realize it was AI.
Artists on FA are getting banned, wrongly accused of using AI.
I have written about AI before, how it destroys creativity.
But AI is getting better and better in the technical aspect.
AI has become an art movement; just like the art movement called meme.
No longer are people content to express themselves using sketch drawings.
The eye candy art is back in full force: hyper-realism, micro-detail, 4K, super soft gradient transitions.
AI fits all the prerequisites of social media.
Instant gratification. Blitzering fast creation.
No development of an argument. Only sophism or propaganda.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of a bigger problem.
The fact that AI is stealing our data, our work, and spying on every corner of our lives is not just an AI problem;
this has been happening for a long time.
Privacy and copyright were never enough to hold back AI.
The biggest damage AI is doing is not about privacy or compensation.
For me, the biggest problem is the killing of creativity.
The problem goes back to when Netflix established the new business model:
content in large quantity above quality—recycling movies and regurgitating the same stuff over and over.
I think we all felt the problem: the lack of creativity. That was before AI art.
When artists say AI art has no soul, they really mean it.
It’s not about the perspective, the number of fingers, the anatomy, or any technical detail.
What AI lacks is human agency.
Text prompt vs. hand painting is a huge gap in decision-making.
And sadly, it hurts deeply in my heart. This gap will not be felt by amateur artists starting just now.
Human perception is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human experience is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human bias is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human mistakes are the artist’s most precious assets.
And all of that cannot be recreated using AI.
And if all that sounds like BS from an "artybollocks" generator.com:
Look more deeply into color theory—all the problems about human perception of color vs. how computers measure light.
Ask yourself why multimillion-dollar movies keep failing. Why do marketing research and consultocracy firms keep pushing the same formula again and again? Why are studios that replaced real artists with AI now regretting this decision?
Creativity can’t be easily manufactured. It doesn’t belong in an industry.
We live in a dystopian world where people think they are in control.
Where we are the product on social networks, yet we keep paying for subscriptions.
Where nothing is truly ours, and everything comes with planned obsolescence.
Where people use AI art, thinking they are the puppeteer, but instead, they are the puppets.
Keep that dream inside your heart. Don´t spoil it with AI generator.
You will be living someone else’s dream.
https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/10877519/
The school of art where I got my art degree is now teaching generative AI.
A friend of mine showed me images and didn’t realize it was AI.
Artists on FA are getting banned, wrongly accused of using AI.
I have written about AI before, how it destroys creativity.
But AI is getting better and better in the technical aspect.
AI has become an art movement; just like the art movement called meme.
No longer are people content to express themselves using sketch drawings.
The eye candy art is back in full force: hyper-realism, micro-detail, 4K, super soft gradient transitions.
AI fits all the prerequisites of social media.
Instant gratification. Blitzering fast creation.
No development of an argument. Only sophism or propaganda.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg of a bigger problem.
The fact that AI is stealing our data, our work, and spying on every corner of our lives is not just an AI problem;
this has been happening for a long time.
Privacy and copyright were never enough to hold back AI.
The biggest damage AI is doing is not about privacy or compensation.
For me, the biggest problem is the killing of creativity.
The problem goes back to when Netflix established the new business model:
content in large quantity above quality—recycling movies and regurgitating the same stuff over and over.
I think we all felt the problem: the lack of creativity. That was before AI art.
When artists say AI art has no soul, they really mean it.
It’s not about the perspective, the number of fingers, the anatomy, or any technical detail.
What AI lacks is human agency.
Text prompt vs. hand painting is a huge gap in decision-making.
And sadly, it hurts deeply in my heart. This gap will not be felt by amateur artists starting just now.
Human perception is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human experience is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human bias is the artist’s most precious asset.
Human mistakes are the artist’s most precious assets.
And all of that cannot be recreated using AI.
And if all that sounds like BS from an "artybollocks" generator.com:
Look more deeply into color theory—all the problems about human perception of color vs. how computers measure light.
Ask yourself why multimillion-dollar movies keep failing. Why do marketing research and consultocracy firms keep pushing the same formula again and again? Why are studios that replaced real artists with AI now regretting this decision?
Creativity can’t be easily manufactured. It doesn’t belong in an industry.
We live in a dystopian world where people think they are in control.
Where we are the product on social networks, yet we keep paying for subscriptions.
Where nothing is truly ours, and everything comes with planned obsolescence.
Where people use AI art, thinking they are the puppeteer, but instead, they are the puppets.
Keep that dream inside your heart. Don´t spoil it with AI generator.
You will be living someone else’s dream.
Hyper realism is great, but the trash produced by AI has no meaning behind it so it's very bland. I love me some sketches and WIPs. Sometimes they're better than the end result.
What you gain in convenience, takes away from agency, from one's approach to a problem and the world.
Not too different to do a deal with the devil, it's giving away the spark in your heart so that a machine can create things for you, so that it tells you that "you can only create this".
AI art's greatest accomplishment was exposing the widespread lack of art literacy.
The only AI slop that is acceptable to me is if an artist wants to train their own model on their own work, then, and only then, does it become the tool of the artist.
Unfortunately, my stories are mothballed for now, and my dream of creating graphic novels is on hold while I pursue a degree in the natural sciences. Now AI is trying to destroy research before I even get my damn degree.
I remember back when digital artists were being told their work was not art because a computer was involved. Its just a rehash of that but this time it's digital artists taking the hit.
When you have skin in the game of course competition isn't desired. I for one fully support generative AI but yeah it isn't ready for primetime and some have jumped the gun too soon on that.
In time though you really won't be able to tell the difference at all. Big part of why some artists get banned here for being wrongly accused of using Ai because the detection tools are woefully inaccurate now.
The reality is the technology is a potential time and money saver so there is a big business interest in it and generative Ai is here to stay. When it is ready for prime time though those who will be competitive in the industry will need the skill to use generative Ai much like traditional animators had to adapt to using digital tools when traditional was phased out due to costs.
This is the cost of advancing technology. I am cool with it. In business you have to adapt whether you want to or not. Always been that way.
It's start long ago but now it spread everywhere.
From a now long time ago, peoples with less brain was used as puppet driven by AI like the ones turned into remotely controlled robots in amazon's warehouses.
Now even them will be replaced, the fact is no https://youtu.be/v8UaiRgqvlc?t=17 just as all drivers (taxi bus train plane subway)
Side note, for subway driverless ones exist since 1983...
So be reassured, there is already no need for a human to prompt anything to generate content, just make a continuous flow of picture and let them flood.
The new question will be what the billionaires could do with all the humans as all their own system will not need them anymore.
Automated factory, warehouse, delivery, all this without any employee...
As for the billionaires, my friend circle discuss them from time to time. We may end up in a dystopian world where a handful of overlords trade their automated products between each other, and the rest of humanity lives in poverty because robots don't buy products. They are desperate to replace the middle-class with their AI golem, they are desperate to create their own perverted idea of a god that can grant them every desire. These are people that believe the earth is "theirs", and the unwashed masses are stinking up "their" forests, beaches, and mountains. I think the globalists are right about having too many humans. I see the overwhelming majority of college students delegate what little thought they had to AI. Test scores of around half of my classmates are abysmal, despite the courses being taught at the 6-10th grade level. Even without AI, our society is quickly running out of jobs for people <90IQ, methods of contribution are dwindling, and they have to go somewhere.
What happen to GO in 2016 just mean no human brain can compete, it was almost 10 years ago, now it's use for a lots of thing from breast cancer detection, to giving you -or not- a to real estate loan.
First this was tool to "help" the radiologist, soon you'll get a "radio booth" just like you had photo booth...
The fact is that will induce a general loss of knowledge value
AI is fast food. Actual art is a home-cooked meal, or that little place on the corner with the secret recipe...
EDIT: And Talarath is right. Something about AI just feels so bland and pedestrian. Like...hey man, you're trying a bit too hard there.
You know, being an artist is not about counting your watchers, favs or making money. It is no competition, it is about doing something you like - no matter how good you are or others say. You can still aim for popularity and making money, but that should never be the reason why you do art in the first place. For example: Im totally happy with sketching some sexy or silly pics of my favorite movie or game characters together with friends. Im not even uploading the most of it.
Maybe there is one piece really looking good, but that's not the point. The most of it is emotionless mass production without meaning or love for the details. You will get bored, because there is nothing spicy or eye catching. It is generic.
Humans creating art no matter the style or type, we have more control and creativity. Ai has to be based off of what he make in order for it to
create something, so there is no open minded creativity, only one trick pony.
I think the only damage it creates is when furries become cheap, go for the "free" and not support artists because its a free option. That is
what will ruin the reputation of creativity and artists....furries who like it for free.
Ai is a great way to use for references and save us time searching the web for sources of references ourselves to aid our imagination to better ourselves
in our design or creation.
When it comes down to what is art, it is indeed art but its artificial and needs a human's content in order to create an image.
Remember, its not Ai that ruins artists in the fandom, its "furries" who flock to it because its a cheap free option for their dick, and they are the ones who ruin
artists. Its like saying guns kill people but its the person who holds the gun that kills, not the gun.
Anyone would say, "No one can beat "free".. Now if it cost money to use Ai, not including websites that do charge money, they do not support porn but if you
have it installed and are computer savvy then its an unlimited source of "free".
Unfortunately, furries will turn away quietly, silent ignoring you, and turn to Ai porn. As long as you put it out for free, they will see it not worth their money because
of the free option of Ai.
Its not something someone wants to accept but its the truth.