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You know, at this point part of the fun of using AI art is pissing off the holier-than-thou luddites.
Luddites would be attacking the capitalism that's exploiting us all, that coerces artists in serving capital, etc.
These people just think all generated art is bad because it doesn't have a "soul" or whatever. They're literally preferring napkins and poop on the walls.
I think you'll find that those of us hating on "AI" """art""" mostly are pretty outspoken anticapitalists.
And I get how people talking about how it's all "soulless" slop (it is) can make that objection seem completely metaphysical and disconnected from material reality, but fundamentally that point is about how art is an expression of the subjective self, something that machines are not.
When a human creates art, every line drawn, every brush stroke and every pixel placed is a choice that says something about the artist, but all that gets abstracted and automated away when the only artistic intent is input as a set of brief verbal instructions.
Fuck it, the reason all this AI bullshit is getting pushed so hard mainly by fascist tech capitalists is precisely because that kind of abstraction of intent functions chiefly to alienate workers from the means of production. GenAI is, in that regard, fundamentally pro-capitalist.
Just like part of the fun of voting Trump is pissing off the holier-than-thou liberals
Oh yeah, using an image generator is totally the same as voting for the literal fascist that's putting people in concentration camps. That's very comparable.
Both fill the world with shit.
Voting for Nazis doesn't make art more accessible to people with disabilities.
Well if they're looking at generated art, then they deserve the gas chamber... \s
These kinds of wacky equivalences are part of why we have fascism.
Guess I should've gone with rolling coal
Fair