I am all for supporting local artists and I feel that “handcrafted in XXX” products make great souvenirs when you’re connected to those places. Still, if some AI hallucinated me a perfect novel for my interests, or generated something I couldnt tell was manufactured or created by a master, I would happily enjoy it.
“How can I tell if this is slop so I can know to hate it” sounds stupid to me: good is good. When it comes to art / food / products, I want the best experience for ME. If I want human connectedness, then I’ll go interact with a human directly.
I can do without wasted water, power, and money, but in the abstract it seems to bother everyone on Lemmy to enjoy something a person didn’t make. I don’t have that hang-up.
I agree with you on that if it was indistinguishable from human art, you can enjoy looking at it. But the problem is A.I. is really bad at creating art that makes you “feel something”; it can make only something that “looks good” but that’s about it (right now).
It’s hard to explain the distinction. But if you watch someone like Bob Ross painting a landscape, the end result is different from an A.I. because the process itself is different. A human looked at the winter painting and decided to add a cabin for warmth in the composition, and a shed for the firewood. If you asked an A.I. for a “winter snowy forest landscape with a log cabin” you get… something. See if you can detect which one is the A.I. without looking for a signature. Ignoring which one superficially looks nicer, which one actually makes you feel the cold and the loneliness and coziness of the cabin? That’s what art actually is, it’s not all about visuals.
I had weird impressions from those. One feels warm and like a Christmas catalog or an old coca cola commercial, the other feels drab, cold, and flat. I loved to watch Bob Ross as a kid but if that signature is the real thing the one that says “Ross” is flat and it’s the one I would have chosen for “cold andAI generated”. I didn’t look for a signature until I reread your text.
That’s pretty interesting. Maybe the style A.I. uses just isn’t for me then?
Idk, it depends on what you put in it I guess. I generally really like Bob Ross paintings but that one just doesn’t do anything for me. Potentially just an unlucky comparison?
I did some casual triangle tests with friends and family and they all liked the A.I. version of various Bob Ross paintings more. So I’m clearly in the minority here
That is extremely interesting…
Unrelated, I notice your posts start with no upvotes, not even one from you the poster. What’s up with that?
I remove my own upvote on my comments because I’m a weirdo lol