Notices by The OwlChemist (owlchemist@mastodon.social)

@Gargron when people take shots at AI, they almost always conveniently ignore that of course having an AI 100% generate an image is not art. The same way uploading someone else’s picture onto my camera isn’t art.

But a camera is still an artistic tool. An AI that an artist works alongside is still an artistic tool.

If you label the whole of AI as “not art”, without specifying that depends on how it’s used, maybe it’s not about art. It’s just popular to attack the low hanging fruit.

@Gargron I remember film photographers saying the same thing about digital.

Then when digital became the preferred art form of photography, they all said the same thing about photoshop and digital manipulation.

It’s interesting to behold this cycle of fear about new technology somehow invalidating the status quo, but it doesn’t. Film is still art. Digital is still art. Photoshopping and digital tweaking is the gold standard now.

AI has a place in the arts, it just makes you uncomfortable.