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 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.