If some piece of art is bad is bad, there’s no denying that.
There’s a particular style I really dislike and probably is why I’m also bias to defend AI, which is what I call twitter commissioner art. Which is a particular style of very badly made digital art, all look the same, very little detail or work in each piece, uninspired, and the spice of the cake is that people making it tend to ask for a lot of money to do commissions of that. And they tend to guilt trip a lot with them being “small artists” and nowadays they are some of the most aggressive pushing against AI (and I can see why, why would anyone pay for such badly drawn something when you can get it for free elsewhere).
BIG note here, I’m not referring to all small artists, most of them are cool, and a lot of them make really nice pieces of amazing art that’s better than anything an AI can produce (but for some reason I don’t see those being worried or being too militant against AI). I’m only referring to those whose work is actually worse than AI output but they refuse to acknowledge that.
But it’s true that I have never seen a 10/10 AI made piece. Some of them are ok though, I specifically enjoy those who make art of very small niches, like dark fantasy on a style that I’ve come to known a tik tok style (I literally know no traditional artists that do those ik that particular style, and I’ve look for). Or folk music about geek topics in my language (for instance I have a playlist of AI made songs about Warhammer 40k that I really enjoy, and no music group do those so that dude making them with AI is my only choice for these).
I’m not against using AI for personal entertainment or education or anything, although paying for AI software does benefit companies I don’t support. As a principle I’m against ripping off artists. To me the recent news of Meta using Libgen to teach their AI is the worst kind of offence. Private lives have been ruined because of piracy and now the richest companies in the world are abusing the works of others.
We agree on that to some part. I don’t disagree with piracy, I’m a free culture person. But I hate that big companies took images for free and then charge money for the result. I’ll never pay for any AI tool or to any AI company in my life, because of that. I think the moral philosophy here would be “taken for free, offered for free”. Thus I only have used tools that are “open sourced” (not 100% but close enough) and that I can self host for free. And I would never charge money for anything done with those tools.
If some piece of art is bad is bad, there’s no denying that.
There’s a particular style I really dislike and probably is why I’m also bias to defend AI, which is what I call twitter commissioner art. Which is a particular style of very badly made digital art, all look the same, very little detail or work in each piece, uninspired, and the spice of the cake is that people making it tend to ask for a lot of money to do commissions of that. And they tend to guilt trip a lot with them being “small artists” and nowadays they are some of the most aggressive pushing against AI (and I can see why, why would anyone pay for such badly drawn something when you can get it for free elsewhere). BIG note here, I’m not referring to all small artists, most of them are cool, and a lot of them make really nice pieces of amazing art that’s better than anything an AI can produce (but for some reason I don’t see those being worried or being too militant against AI). I’m only referring to those whose work is actually worse than AI output but they refuse to acknowledge that.
But it’s true that I have never seen a 10/10 AI made piece. Some of them are ok though, I specifically enjoy those who make art of very small niches, like dark fantasy on a style that I’ve come to known a tik tok style (I literally know no traditional artists that do those ik that particular style, and I’ve look for). Or folk music about geek topics in my language (for instance I have a playlist of AI made songs about Warhammer 40k that I really enjoy, and no music group do those so that dude making them with AI is my only choice for these).
I’m not against using AI for personal entertainment or education or anything, although paying for AI software does benefit companies I don’t support. As a principle I’m against ripping off artists. To me the recent news of Meta using Libgen to teach their AI is the worst kind of offence. Private lives have been ruined because of piracy and now the richest companies in the world are abusing the works of others.
We agree on that to some part. I don’t disagree with piracy, I’m a free culture person. But I hate that big companies took images for free and then charge money for the result. I’ll never pay for any AI tool or to any AI company in my life, because of that. I think the moral philosophy here would be “taken for free, offered for free”. Thus I only have used tools that are “open sourced” (not 100% but close enough) and that I can self host for free. And I would never charge money for anything done with those tools.