• snooggums
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    1 month ago

    That is another good example. Using a text prompt of an AI is like microwaving a premade meal.

    But tech bros using AI who can’t create anything without the AI aren’t artists just like someone who can only microwave premade meals isn’t a chef.

    Hell, adding some additional cheese or making informed substitutions and maybe a tiny bit of some seasoning is being a chef.

    But if you use the AI to create the meal entirely you aren’t choosing the noodles, sauce, meat balls, or anything else. You are picking items from a menu at best and hoping for random chance to spit out something you like.

    Intentionally applying an AI filter to something intentionally chosen with an expected outcome could be used to create art just like algorithm based filters. But the meme is referring to people who can’t actually create anything without an AI text promp.

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        31 month ago

        You are overthinking the details by taking examples far to literally and applying them too broadly.

        Just like if I used text prompt of an AI and created some art (assuming it doesn’t make it goofy). You’d believe that I was a great artist.

        I would think the same thing as I would if you used google search and presented some artwork someone else made as your own. Typing a text prompt into an AI generator is the same thing as typing words into a search engine.

        Passing off someone else’s work as your own might fool someone into thinking you were a great artist, but that doesn’t make you an artist.

        Would cover bands be artists or musicians? If all they could do was follow the “recipe”? If they add some additional cheese.

        Cover bands can also play other songs beyond what they choose to for the cover band, because they are musicians. Do you think they are limited to only that one band’s songs?