my tech aura comes and goes

i once tried to log into a microsoft account for 10 minutes, and it only let me in once i took the laptop to my coworker and tried to show how it wasn’t working

and then one of my other coworkers tried to restart a camera multiple times, and it only worked when i pressed the button

psychadelics are only one type of drugs, besides, you can achieve psychadelic effects through meditation alone

ah, i assumed you were talking about public models. the sort of stuff that you specified now is fine in my books. might be a good idea to mention that you don’t mean the slop making AIs from the start, since that’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone says “AI art”

let me know when AI actually makes something new instead of mass plagiarising actual artists’ work (whilst burning through tons of water)

because at the most generous you could call what AI does a “collage of anonymous artworks guided by a user’s input”, but in reality, it’s just stealing, and you don’t even know who’s art you took

overlap between drawing and photography? easy, composition, colour theory, framing, in fact you could take everything (aside from gear knowledge) from photography and apply it to drawing or painting

pretty much all mediums of art have the same basic core - concepts that can come in handy no matter what other medium you grab, shapes, colours, compositions - you learn those by working with any medium, and you can take them everywhere else

i meant the knowledge of line weight, colour theory, perspective, shapes, how light works, where shadows fall, how to treat your values, and the million other things that you can take to paper, that i have taken to paper as a ditigal artist

drawing ditigally is one way of drawing sure, but the skills you get as you draw are 90% transferable to any other medium - you just need to learn the new tool first

obviously it won’t be the same, but you’ll still be able to use the knowledge and skills you’ve obtained drawing digitally - to help you put the idea in your head onto the paper much better

and AI prompter would be on the same level as someone who’s never touched a pencil before

that language model doesn’t regurgitate the media it was trained on. it just makes sure you don’t misspell your thats

no,

if someone learns art on digital systems they can grab a pencil and do the same on paper. maybe they’ll be annoyed by lack of the undo button, maybe they’ll have to learn colour mixing, and how materials interact with each other, but the core ability to make art is fully transferable between ditigal and paper

same goes for animation. btw. your statement about it doesn’t make much sense, keyframes are a concept used by both digital and traditional animators. and if you meant frame interpolation then it’s a brute force calculation of the most average of averages given two data-points, 90% of the time the animator has to go back and fix it, developing their animation skills that they can then take to paper and do just the same (would just take way longer)

now what will a prompt typer do without their AI?

fuck all is what they’d do. the only transferable skill from that would be idk writing image descriptions for the visually impaired

then the title is misleading

they can’t just put a game on their platform, the publisher needs to agree and set up terms of sale - if the publisher is going against what GOG want then it won’t be easy to compromise

the archetype you’re looking for is “Anti-hero”. a kind of hero with grey morals and questionable ethics - but whose actions still have a mostly positive result

typically - a hero will try to rehabilitate a criminal first, throw them in prison second, and only kill if they’ve exhausted all other options. killing is usually shown as something that the hero struggles with greatly

an anti-hero will often skip the “when will murder be my only option?” ethical dilemma regular heroes have and go straight to the killing. in their stories casual killing is either shown as normal, or serves as a plot point that’ll come back to haunt them later (“i killed that man without thinking, but now he turned out to be innocent”)

this is not the only difference between the two of course, but i don’t want to type an essay

looks to me like someone just kept their phone’s camera on whatever default settings it came with and one of those settings happened to be an “enhancing” algorithm that makes a generic image “better” but give it two overlapping patterns and it gets a stroke

edit: upon further examination, there’s a keyhole at the bottom of the door, it’s just AI, ugh

it doesn’t know what ir was doing, it just writes something vaguely plausible

am i AI?

i experience an emotional reaction when i step in shit too

the only pause it gives me is when i notice nonsensical details blending into each other, the only emotion it moves in me is then disgust and foolishness as i just spent time on slop that was not an expression of something, but an intentionless imitation of one. and it sure as hell doesn’t make me self reflect as it manages to be both shallow and hollow

it’s not AI “art” itself that sparked a conversation, no singular piece stands out as something people talk about (a piece that is more than just a more seamless version of the pervious attempts, something memorable even after it stops being the best at imitation). The talk is not about AI “art” itself it’s about the idea of it. Nobody points to a single thing AI made and claims that is proof it’s not art, because it’s not individual pieces that “make us think” – it’s the concept of an intentionless thing being fed human art and then making misshapen copies of it at the whims of people who can’t be bothered to engage with art at all.

sure it does make you thing, but only if you - knowingly or not - treat the entire emergence of AI slop as a kind of performance art itself, any individual piece of slop is not the topic here

never mind a canvas, if the guy cared in the slightest about the “art” AI made he’d at least print it on poster paper

this experiment shows how even the “artists” just do not care about those images, and why would they? why would any of us care?

this shows exactly the core of the issue - every piece of art made by a human, no matter how good or bad (whatever that means), is a reflection of the artist. Sometimes they pour their entire soul into a piece, sometimes just a small part of them, but it’s always a reflection of them. So the artist will care about what they’ve made because it’s their own self, in a way. And others will care about it too, because we crave to get to know others, understand them, see the world how they see it - and art allows us to glimpse just that.

AI slop elicits none of those emotions, there is no artist to care about, no reflection of the self, no worldview to glimpse, no way of caring about it, nothing – even if it was you who wrote the prompt, you just can’t bring yourself to give a shit

wow, it seems like it’s printed on printer quality paper. really amplifies how those who use AI for “art” don’t give a flying fuck about art

well maybe for you that’s not enough justification. but others care about other people

in a way i think yes. in the dark ages at least any insane cults and ideas couldn’t spread far. if your village or castle happened to have dark ages version of ben shapiro then his words aren’t going to go far (unless they infected the local ruler as well, and even then it’d still be contained within your area, or your country at worst). If you were on the receiving end of insanity you could always just kind of– pack up and move to another village, walk 30km away and you’re like a new man! Worst case scenario find your way to a port, fuck off to another country - passports or border control did not exist, passage was often granted for free to those able bodied that joined the crew for the voyage.

obviously i’m romanticising here a bit, modern medicine and technology makes day to day life easier. but it also makes other things much harder. our privacy is going extinct at an alarming rate, freedom of movement across borders belongs to distant memories of our great grandparents, (unless you’re french) your protests will be ignored and/or vilified, and if you dare care about other humans and speak up about it you can be labelled as a terrorist in some places

i do truly hope that those years of unrest aren’t here to stay…

anxiety & depression are common comorbidities so it still fits imo