Thats so true. Tho, people used to have some kind of tunnel vision, saying that making art with AI is also a process to enjoy. Which simply tells, that they never really tried to do it by themselves to start with. Its not an instrument, it never was. A simpler way to put is that you don't want to automate something that makes you happy, it just doesn't make any sense
Feel like we as artists fear AI art because of monetisation aspect, to keep food on the table. I’ll try to adapt instead of neglecting it. Traditional artists hated it when digital tablets are out, called digital illustrations “not real art”. I tell myself if it’s the journey that i enjoy, why should I be scared? I feel you, yet you don’t account for new artists will born with AI. I’ve quited the mentality: “We have technicians here, making noise, no one is a musician. They are not artists because nobody can play the guitar.” My problem with AI is, any artwork and style can be copied easily without my consent and can be monetised by someone else. But we wouldn’t have our awesome digital art so accessible if Nikolai Tesla was so restrictive about his invention. Mixed feelings, yet I love where we are headed.
Art is communication. A way for people to express themselves and connect with others. AI "art" has no intention, no will. It doesn't have anything to say. It cannot communicate. The more ubiquitous AI image generation gets, the more we lose of a major component of human culture. Though it might seem like a silly comparison to make, it reminds me of the first Terminator film. A hostile unfeeling machine, covered in cloned human flesh so it can infiltrate and destroy.
I started to draw because of sacrilegious feeling of creating AI art. I don't know why, but with every generated image I physically felt bad. So, In my case, AI art caused me to try with the real one.
I may be one of the rare (strange) people out there, but when I first discovered AI Art, It actually gave me the polar opposite; instead of it discouraging me; because of how hard Drawing actually is, and how discouraged I was when I tried to even draw even the simplistic studies; I thought I could take some of the AI Art as a Study, and I could find out as much elements that went wrong from there. It legit gave me some encouragement that maybe my drawing by not be dead underwater just yet; and all I would need to do is constantly keep drawing and studying. Maybe this is just my arrogantness and my detachment speaking here, but I just viewed this as the era of how 2d Drawing from Dinsey from 'The Little Mermaid' was being Tool-Assited and becoming 3d. So I was thinking of that mindset, where AI Art is nothing more than a tool-assistant more than anything. And you are free to disagree with me on this too. Maybe I just have a different perspective on how I see AI Art. But I see it as a Faster Study, so I could perhaps, draw just as well as an AI.
Honestly speaking, I think AI can be brilliant as a tool for reference material, but never to make a full blown piece of art. Like I wouldn’t consider someone an ‘ai artist’ I feel like you’re more an ‘ai art commissioner’ because you didn’t physically draw the art yourself.
You are young and inexperimented, you would be older with more experience you would know it's a non issue, why ? Because it has been happening in art for decades, same fear, same outcome, art is still here. Painter said the same about photo, computer, 3d, stock images, industrial goods, etc... Yet you are here drawing on a computer talking on video, through internet, these absolute destructor of art, as we use to call them at their inception!
