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▲ 5 r/aiwars

is AI Art a result of consumerism?

most artists (especially AI "artists") will tell you that you've missed the point of art when you try to define it. that you don't understand what art is. rather than defining art, i'd like to share my opinion on what art is about.

i believe art is about the human expression of raw emotion, the desire for connection, and the human experience as a whole (and there are art forms, like Dada, which reject some of these principles). although AI image gen models are trained almost exclusively on human-generated artwork, they are still complex mathematical formulae and billions to trillions of parameters.

AI does not possess subjective experience or emotional stakes in its creations, nor does it understand the complexity of the human condition. art is just as much about the process as it is the product. i feel that AI abstracts away that process, distancing the creator from the emotion, labor, and intention behind the work. it cuts straight to the product. every time you type in an iteration prompt, it is taking that product and feeding on itself. it uses images used from artists (often without their consent) as direct samples rather than inspiration.

consumerism is about the constant acquisition of products for the ultimate goal of achieving happiness and fulfillment. like consumer culture, AI art prioritizes the rapid generation of finished products over engagement with process, craft, or reflection. every AI model attempts to spit out a finished result. a product. and the "prompt iterations" of AI artists are taking that product and trying to create a process out of it, rather than letting it naturally be part of the process itself.

i don't think that my opinion is "romanticizing struggle," as i've seen many AI art proponents argue. rather i believe that art should be based on real human experience or using uniquely human talent in the process to create a true work of art.

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u/legitOwen — 2 days ago
▲ 141 r/ArcBrowser

it will never cease to amaze me that BCNY writes a different description for each minor Chromium update.

u/legitOwen — 13 days ago
▲ 43 r/flatearth

here's an unedited photo of the ocean i took when i was on vacation last year. i placed a bright, red, perfectly straight line running horizontally across the image, right above the ocean horizon. you can clearly see that the ocean is curved, since the water is closer to the line near the center, and further below it near the edges.

this is not lens distortion, as you can clearly make out the uniform waves going southeast (it was a windy day). you can also see a hint of a ship on the middle-right, which is clearly partially covered by water (or, you know, the curvature of the earth)

i made a close up of how different the edges were in case you couldn't see it well enough, these are screenshots from the same design, so the red line in this image is not changed.

flerfs, i know this will do nothing to change your mind, but hey, at least it looks cool.

edit: i'm getting flamed in the comments (because y'all are right it is almost entirely due to pincushion distortion), but i found another photo i took where the horizon was virtually perfectly centered (thanks, iOS Camera gridlines), which shows that the difference is like a pixel, but it's still something: https://imgur.com/a/HXgzdtO
and there are way better experiments out there, i found it in my camera roll and at first glance it looked convincing, thanks for the corrections tho, my fault for not researching more.

u/legitOwen — 22 days ago
▲ 106 r/logodesign

i've seen lots of news recently about the new Google apps/services icons, and i was curious what Snoo would look like with the design language and so i spent about 20 minutes prototyping this logo. obviously, using a gradient on most logos (depending on medium) is usually a bad/terrible idea, but i thought i'd try making it just for fun.

(i had to delete and repost because i forgot to add a background)

u/legitOwen — 24 days ago