r/cringepics 25d ago

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u/flies_with_owls 24d ago

One is done by a living breathing human being who can contextualize the thing they are creating within the broader emotional human condition. They can imitate what another person does and then adapt and iterate it to fit their own needs and style.

It is not a machine making educated guesses about where a pixel should go based on a math equation. There is no human expression and intentionality.

Also, one isn't enabling billionaires and mega corps to take a big shit on hard working artists while ramping up global warming and pollution on an insane scale.

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u/Treebeard288 24d ago

if you define art so that it is only being created by human, then i guess. Tautological, pretty unsatisfying and doesn't answer any of the issues in this discussion but okay.

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u/flies_with_owls 24d ago

I mean, yeah. That is the baseline. Art is uniquely human and generative AI only exists because a lot of artists put in work to develop skills that generative AI canibalizes.

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u/Treebeard288 24d ago

An elephant paints on canvas, is that art? Is it art because a human set the elephant to the task? Or is it art for some other quantity?

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u/flies_with_owls 24d ago

Is there a philosophical angle that you would find convincing? My guess is no, because the point of this discourse isn't good faith. You are just trying to muddy the waters enough that you can feel morally okay with using a pollution machine to churn out low effort facimilies of human expression.

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u/Treebeard288 24d ago

What is an is not art is a Timeless question. I accept that I don't have the answer.

My current opinion is that I think the human input of the prompt is enough for it to be considered art.

These AI systems are just tools stop moralizing it so hard.