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Villain_S_Fiend posted...

Yes, because AI is a computer program made specifically to scrape data and use only that data to form an image based on input from a user. It cannot be inspired; it has no creativity; it cannot make an influenced piece of art its own, because it makes nothing of its own, only what it is told to make. Computers have no life experience to pull from.

Humans are creatures of actual inspiration and creativity. We are influenced by things, but we make those influences into something that speaks to our own experience, aesthetic, etc.

The "humans do it too" argument requires a toxically cynical view of the human mind/spirit.

I get what you mean but I don't see what inspired has to do with it really. You can say it's without passion but that doesnt make it theft.

SSJKirby posted...

You're selling your talent and hard work being able to translate one piece of art into something else. AI Art doesn't exist without thousands of people's input just so someone who thinks they're an artist can get their ideas into tangible form.

Having an idea and letting something else make it for you doesn't make you an artist. AI Art exists on the backs of thousands of people's hard work and they didn't get a say in any of it.

Think of AI Art as the commision process, you want Bugs Bunny as Mona Lisa but instead of paying an artist whose work you like to do it for you, you get AI to do it. That artist just lost out on a potential customer, and that can scale up. Companies can commission AI Art faster, and significantly cheaper to get their ideas out on paper and the people responsible for AI Art being functional in the first place get nothing.

I agree and I don't think using AI to make art makes you an artist, and it's cringe if you claim yourself as an AI artist. However if I just want a funny bugs bunny picture for my own use, I don't think there's anything wrong with using an AI vs paying a person. If the AI didn't exist, I probably wouldn't ever commission it anyway, so it's a moot point that they're losing out on money. Any artist who gets a commission is taking a customer away from another artist anyway, so I don't really buy that argument.

The entire history of human art and media is built on all that came before. A computer looking at art to make a novel piece of art isnt stealing imo.