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41. This is just like what the music world said about sequencers and samplers in the 1980s

Fri Feb 3, 2023, 06:33 AM

Feb 2023

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Somewhere out there, the AI visual art version of Marley Marl is doing something mind-blowing, and in a decade or so we'll wonder how we got by without it.

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Mastodon.art just banned AI art [View all] highplainsdem Jan 2023 OP

I agree with this policy just because, I don't care about ai art. lindysalsagal Jan 2023 #1

Just because you don't want to see it means we should ban it? Polybius Feb 2023 #37

Sounds like a fair and sensible policy. dalton99a Jan 2023 #2

As an artist, I applaud this decision. FalloutShelter Jan 2023 #3

Best to be cautious I guess blogslug Jan 2023 #4

I saw that AZSkiffyGeek Jan 2023 #5

"I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time" blogslug Jan 2023 #6

Well-played. TheProle Jan 2023 #9

For those who missed it... lol: demmiblue Jan 2023 #8

Hey! Ho! Let's Go Celerity Jan 2023 #7

All creepy to me except Brenda Feb 2023 #23

different cultural upbringings yield various takes on what is 'creepy' Celerity Feb 2023 #26

As a federation rather than a centralized system Voltaire2 Jan 2023 #10

DALL-E would be like photography only if you could get a photograph highplainsdem Jan 2023 #11

every creative human is working off the efforts of other humans Voltaire2 Feb 2023 #12

No, AI is like telling someone else to create a collage. It's fake creativity. highplainsdem Feb 2023 #15

Ok then just about every major artist uses assistants. Voltaire2 Feb 2023 #20

That isn't true, and the use of assistants to do the work while highplainsdem Feb 2023 #21

I'm confused. It isn't true, it has been going on for 500 years, and its really bad? Voltaire2 Feb 2023 #30

This message was self-deleted by its author speak easy Feb 2023 #31

It isn't true that "just about every major artist uses assistants" - which is what highplainsdem Feb 2023 #33

Yeah I read about how Hockney is f'ing pissed off Voltaire2 Feb 2023 #35

There's nothing on that page or the one it links to referring highplainsdem Feb 2023 #36

I agree wholeheartedly Mossfern Feb 2023 #38

It's like more telling someone take a photograph via text message. tinrobot Feb 2023 #13

I hope to see that genie slammed back into the bottle forever highplainsdem Feb 2023 #16

The same thing happened with computers and music sampling. tinrobot Feb 2023 #17

There's not inherently wrong with AI, anymore than there is anything wrong with phone cameras. Ms. Toad Feb 2023 #18

None of the challenges you mention have been met, though, and so far there's been highplainsdem Feb 2023 #22

Your focus wasn't on the issues of licensing and plagiarizing. Ms. Toad Feb 2023 #27

AI is not like a camera. AI produces writing, images and highplainsdem Feb 2023 #28

Ripping off human work is a legal problem. Ms. Toad Feb 2023 #29

The best way to teach writing is via reading and writing, not by having highplainsdem Feb 2023 #34

You can't put this genie back in the bottle. Elessar Zappa Feb 2023 #19

We all drive cars that can go much faster than speed limits, but there are highplainsdem Feb 2023 #24

I'm sure there will be regulations regarding AI. Elessar Zappa Feb 2023 #25

Not getting it 48656c6c6f20 Feb 2023 #14

It is the conception, not the composition that is art. speak easy Feb 2023 #32

In that case Mossfern Feb 2023 #39

? speak easy Feb 2023 #40

Conceptual art Mossfern Feb 2023 #43

dalle literally requires a statement to generate an image from. Voltaire2 Feb 2023 #48

I'm curious Mossfern Feb 2023 #53

... speak easy Feb 2023 #54

This is just like what the music world said about sequencers and samplers in the 1980s Recursion Feb 2023 #41

"Photography is evil, won't someone think of the poor portait artists!" Lancero Feb 2023 #42

There is little or no art in giving instructions to AI. You could take words highplainsdem Feb 2023 #44

Whats that sentence that art-snobs say to people who question their own favored method of art? Lancero Feb 2023 #45

AI will be making photographers, not just cameras, unnecessary. highplainsdem Feb 2023 #46

And you need to be skilled to spin the words to get the AI to output what you need... Lancero Feb 2023 #49

Unless you are doing something like telling AI to generate a picture by highplainsdem Feb 2023 #51

It's a form of art, and it's one that multi-billion dollar companies want a slice of. Lancero Feb 2023 #52

see: conceptual art. Been around since the 60s. Voltaire2 Feb 2023 #47

Oh, yes. The bucket into which non-art pretending to be art falls. highplainsdem Feb 2023 #50