Have you ever been surprised by #AI art? I have.
I've seen artists encourage other artists to explore AI to lift them out of their creative ruts.
If AI was no more than just merely remixing reality, we would not be surprised. It would be powerless to help us be less predictable.
Indeed, there is a remarkable synthesis happening in it that we are witnessing. Some folks try to brush this off trivial and iterative. While I'm not sure what to make of it all, I'm convinced that that's a mistake.
My problem with AI, and I refuse to call it art, is where do the images it uses come from... People's actual original art. Scraped off data...
No. It's not trival. It's electronic plagarism.
@tgraph52 There is definitely an element of that, and that is its own concern.
Then again, what ideas are off-limits to AI, and how could we ever hope to restrict them?
And yet what I'm talking about is a bit different. I'm talking about generative synthesis where there is no discernable trace of any pre-existing art.
Like there are specific electronic synthesisers from the 80s that are in demand for a very unique sound they made. That sound is original, even if it was an attempted copy.
There are no limits now and none that can be applied... That seems worrisome to me...
Because there may be no discernable trace of pre-existing art to you or I doesn't mean that it isn't there and that the process of scraping original work didn't happen.
Electronic synthesizers, with their ability to recreate previous sounds are nothing like that...
I'm a photographer whose had to fight to stop strangers using my images for their own purposes. It's very upsetting.
@tgraph52 I have an issue with calling it art too.
The dabbling I've done makes me feel like a toddler with all of human history and ability at my fingertips.
I'm certainly not willing to take credit for something generated by AI, and copyrighting AI-generated anything opens a whole host of legal quagmires.
But it's unquestionably adding to our cultural discourse and meaning-making in a host of different disciplines and directions.
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It’s so much fun, too! And getting better over time.