The thing is... Elbow grease makes the difference.

If you're just generating images using AI, you only get 80% there. You need at least to be able to touch up those images to get something outstanding.

Plus, is getting 1 billion bytes of randomness/entropy from your 1 thousand bytes of text input really <your> work?

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evrimoztamur 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Pollock can get uncountable bytes of entropy from a skilful swing of a bucket.

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oblio 3 days ago | parent [-]

Most art isn't like that. I would argue most people dislike that kind of art.

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larrry 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I understand not liking Pollock, and he’s often the butt of “my kid could do that”. But do you really think most people dislike it?

In person they are compelling, and there is more skill at play than at first glance. I like them at least

	▲	oblio 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, stuff that's popular is plastered everywhere. Think about artworks we see in movies, TV shows, billboards, album covers, book covers, basically everywhere around us. I would argue that most art around us is current pop art or classical/realist/romantic art, not modern/postmodern/abstract expressionist art.

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userbinator 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Plus, is getting 1 billion bytes of randomness/entropy from your 1 thousand bytes of text input really <your> work?

I think what AI has made and will make many more people realise is that everything is a derivative work. You still had to prompt the AI with your idea, to get it to assemble the result from the countless others' works it was trained on (and perhaps in the future, "your" work will then be used by others, via the AI, to create "their" work.)

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esafak 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is apposite that in a lot of modern art, the concept and provenance are valued more than the execution.

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dottjt 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

For now. Eventually it will get you 100% of the way there and we'll have the tooling for it as well.