Because it doesn’t just “cannibalize shitty pretenders.” It steals from quality artists as well. This is not moral virtue signaling, it’s a fact, and if you don’t like that fact, take it up with reality.
It’s not about whether AI can make good art. It’s about how it got to that mediocre point in the first place. It’s about how nobody is offered the chance to opt out. Do you need to memorize, store, and reference every Studio Ghibli art piece to figure out how to paint or draw in that style? Probably not.
And if you want to pull rank, I got my studio art degree decades ago. Don’t pretend that just because “you’re an artist, too” (or that you’re learning about art) that it absolves you of your complicity in supporting open theft—by billionaires, no less. And if you plan to become an artist someday, don’t be so naive to think that you’re somehow better than those “shitty pretenders” or that it won’t affect your livelihood, too.
Telorand@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Because it doesn’t just “cannibalize shitty pretenders.” It steals from quality artists as well. This is not moral virtue signaling, it’s a fact, and if you don’t like that fact, take it up with reality.
It’s not about whether AI can make good art. It’s about how it got to that mediocre point in the first place. It’s about how nobody is offered the chance to opt out. Do you need to memorize, store, and reference every Studio Ghibli art piece to figure out how to paint or draw in that style? Probably not.
And if you want to pull rank, I got my studio art degree decades ago. Don’t pretend that just because “you’re an artist, too” (or that you’re learning about art) that it absolves you of your complicity in supporting open theft—by billionaires, no less. And if you plan to become an artist someday, don’t be so naive to think that you’re somehow better than those “shitty pretenders” or that it won’t affect your livelihood, too.