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Look at the Words on the Slop, it is Not Even Close (Art by Kelly McKernan) (pawb.social)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The oddest thing is that a lot of ai people seem to fail that understanding that not every piece from an artist is their best work. Sometimes it is a casual fun drawing to e.g. join a trend.

That is the only way the "better" ai version shit makes sense. The perspective that every piece needs to have a "clean" style and preferably photorealistic. And obviously photorealistic or "clean" Styles require attention to detail and a more serious commitment to the piece.

[–] funkless_eck 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have always loved art, and one of my favourite pieces is Nu descendant un escalier n° 2, because it represents an artist struggling to come to terms with ideas like photography, moving pictures, quantum physics in their early days, while trying to both show and hide the humanity being depicted

AI has none of that. AI doesn't even have the soul of a child's doodle pinned to the fridge.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I have not seen that. Or maybe I have.

Either way, that's a really interesting painting.

Here's the wikipedia, for other people.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I think there's an angle for people who wish they could take part in the good drawing too.

It's like that kid in school that would trace a really good drawing and then change the color a bit and say they did it themselves, but for adults. 'Aren't you happy i made it better?' Just equates to me as 'i want attention for the art too'

The sad part of course being that instead of even having the guile to pick up a utensil and trace it themselves, they just copy paste it to a program and become a middle man for downloading and uploading an image.

Setting aside the 'soul' of the drawing or how it appears visually, it's just sad to watch someone make a cheap facsimile of the thing you made at the cost of a few mouse clicks and making the climate a tiny bit worse.

All that just for 'siel'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

There’s joy and personality in imperfection.