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:
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: