ZILtoid1991 , 10 months ago

Things are different though:

1. Scale. I cannot just look at all existing art and images, then build up a visual library based on them.
2. "Prompting" is the techbro's idea of creation. Someone, who does not understand something having some vague ideas for something, but since not understanding how creation works, be it art or some tech gadget ideas they come up (I know a lot of that kind of people), all they have is a vague idea of something new.
3. When people sample music, they often do it out of love, not to rub it into musicians' face for not joining their band. Many AI bros are just angry at artists for them not working for free, exposure, etc., in some project full of red flags. Thus they started to let out their frustration on artists.
4. Due to how techbros view this technology, I'm now supposed to throw out all my skills with "real" art, throw out all my equipment, and only rely on "prompts", because "that's the future". You want something more interactive? Maybe even have your own style? Maybe when our lord and savior Elon Musk develops the NeuraLink Chip and the tech behind AI will be better...

Due to how bad and unimaginative AI "art" is, I cannot use it in my projects, even if in theory I'm one of the target audiences: I'm an indie gamedev, working alone on a project that grew out of its own scope. I'm a good programmer and writer, but "only" good at those, not some ground-changer. I'm also a mediocre artist and musician. I could use AI generated assets for the example games of my engine. But I will NEVER do as such! Cliche-ish artstyles, barely understands what should go where, and AI generated music is even worse, often giving me enough motivation to do one more trial at composing.

Normally, I wouldn't care about it. I might be amazed by its trippy hallucinations like I was when the first of such technology came out. However, many people think this will be the "next step in human expression", and "we need to learn to live with it". I even seen promising artists with interesting artstyles giving up on their craft, to jump onto "prompting", because some techbro on twitter bullied them for doing art "the old way".

HarkMahlberg , 10 months ago

I even seen promising artists with interesting artstyles giving up on their craft, to jump onto "prompting", because some techbro on twitter bullied them for doing art "the old way".

This was certainly a problem in the NFT days. "Mint your art as an NFT, make a fortune! What, someone stole your art and minted an NFT of your art and now they're making money off it? You should have bought in sooner!" Techbros' whole raison d'etre is to bully people into giving them money with FOMO. It's a disgusting tactic.

It's a shame because the counterpoint is that generative AI has the potential to be actually useful unlike NFT's. Consider the argument made by Joel Haver at the end of this video. Hand rotoscoping is a painstaking process, but a Photoshop plugin that does it automatically? It allows him to make fun videos, good content, art. And it's definitely a style that he's embraced and made his own. But because generative AI is driven by techbros, style and substance alike go out the window in the name of churning through gristle, training an AI on other people's art so they can sell the AI for profit.