As I see it, the real question is what role we think mechanical skill plays in creation of art.
From what i noticed, art critics generally disdain realism in painting often going as far as “what is the point of painting photo since you can just make a photo” so i guess they shouldn’t complain about AI being used as tool, but i feel they will do it anyway.
It’s definitely going to be interesting to see where art goes now that it’s becoming easy to generate any scene you want without having to have much technical skill.
Yeah i read something along those lines, invention of photography and especially simplifying the equipment can potentially make everyone a realist painter (still the differences in skill are noticeable as every fan of photography would tell you), so i just see AI as next stage of making potentially anyone into artist. I always thought the technical skills are the biggest obstacle, as i have pretty vivid imagination but next to no skill to express it.
*Fuck the critics though, my favourite painters are still Ilya Repin, Jan Matejko and Jacques-Louis David.
Yeah completely agree with that. The whole gatekeeping around what constitutes “real art” is pure nonsense in my opinion. Any tool that helps people express themselves is a net positive. And I’ve personally been having a ton of fun playing with stable diffusion. I find it’s particularly good at doing abstract style, and in a lot of cases it really does look like it could’ve been painted by somebody. A few nice results I got recently:
From what i noticed, art critics generally disdain realism in painting often going as far as “what is the point of painting photo since you can just make a photo” so i guess they shouldn’t complain about AI being used as tool, but i feel they will do it anyway.
There’s a fun article on how photography influenced art direction away from realism actually https://kiamaartgallery.wordpress.com/2015/05/05/impressionism-the-influence-of-photography/
It’s definitely going to be interesting to see where art goes now that it’s becoming easy to generate any scene you want without having to have much technical skill.
Yeah i read something along those lines, invention of photography and especially simplifying the equipment can potentially make everyone a realist painter (still the differences in skill are noticeable as every fan of photography would tell you), so i just see AI as next stage of making potentially anyone into artist. I always thought the technical skills are the biggest obstacle, as i have pretty vivid imagination but next to no skill to express it.
*Fuck the critics though, my favourite painters are still Ilya Repin, Jan Matejko and Jacques-Louis David.
Yeah completely agree with that. The whole gatekeeping around what constitutes “real art” is pure nonsense in my opinion. Any tool that helps people express themselves is a net positive. And I’ve personally been having a ton of fun playing with stable diffusion. I find it’s particularly good at doing abstract style, and in a lot of cases it really does look like it could’ve been painted by somebody. A few nice results I got recently: