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Someday I want to commission an artist for some game assets or an album cover, I just haven't made anything good enough yet
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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Holy fuck I just realized I can comission wallpapers π
Whether I can afford it is a different matter entirely
turns on phone
goes to the clock app to set an alarm so I can wake up in the morning
phone sends a push notification of names and contact numbers
"Siri what is this?"
"It's a list of knocker ups you can hire to wake you up and are looking for new clients"
Knocker ups' comment on this story: "This is a horror story to a techbro and a feel-good comedy to anyone with a sense of human decency"
( from reddit )
In all seriousness though, I wouldn't pay money to look at pretty pictures. If I wanted an image but AI didn't exist, I wouldn't commission anyone. The image that I want just simply wouldn't exist.
What's the point of you posting that analogy? What's the point of your current comment?
The point is that there is a niche that isn't covered by commercial artists that AI image generation fills quite nicely, and complaining about it is like complaining that you no longer phone the operator to connect your telephone calls.
As somebody who commissions art this would fucking rule, actually.
Imagine if computers did this with math. Same thing.
The problem isn't that computers do work for us. The problem is that we're violently coerced into serving capital or starving to death at best.
The effort and ingenuity put in to make computers do maths correctly and helpfully is incredible and immense; the way people use computers in original ways to solve incredibly complicated problems is and should be applauded, but the computer also just does exactly what it was told. Given infinite patience and concentration the computer is unnecessary.\
AI art uses already existing art and can't create something original or new. Setting aside the ethics of generators taking credit for work done by others (which is still unethical even outside a capitalist society), it just doesn't create anything interesting or worthwhile because almost definitionally something better already exists.\
Also to counter another argument I have heard before that human artists are 'trained' on other people's art too and often don't credit them. Humans also have innumerable experiences in their life that contribute to everything they think and do which, as chaotic systems go, is pretty good at finding a new path not taken.
Strongly disagree on the "AI art uses already existing art and canβt create something original or new" part. Are collages new? Is new music new if it uses pre-existing chords? Is parody new?
Unless you think AI just copies/pastes existing art like Google image search (it doesn't), the things that AI creates is new.
As a couple people pointed out, I don't literally mean it can't generate pixels in a sequence it hasn't exactly seen. What it can't do is make art with an original take/message/meaning. It doesn't have the accumulated life experience of a person and so can't produce something that takes that and represents it in its art.
My unsolicited opinion as an artist of a few different media.
Good art communicates emotions and feelings of the artist to the audience through its medium. Parody is "new" when it takes an original artist's message, and responds with another artist's absurd take.
Without emotions or feelings, a computer just wings it, and tries to simulate it. It's like receiving a message from an insincere person - maybe pretty but ultimately shallow and hollow.
In the future, computers will be better at faking it. However, I think that will make real art from humans more valuable, not less.
It might be new, but it isn't "art", at least not by my definition.
Math, fot the most part, isn't a reflection of human psyche valued for the human connection and a shared soul.
It can be in a lot of places, but usually isn't.
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