I just want to make funny Pictures.

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    Hey, as long as you don’t try to

    • Sell it
    • Claim it’s yours
    • Use it instead of hiring professionals if you’re a business

    not too fussed.

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      Why not sell it? Pet Rocks were sold.

      Why not claim it’s yours? You wrote the prompt. See Pet Rocks above.

      Not use it and instead hire a professional? That argument died with photography. Don’t take a photo, hire a painter!

      So what if AI art is low quality. Not every product needs to be art.

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        Why not sell it? Pet Rocks were sold.

        Why not claim it’s yours? You wrote the prompt. See Pet Rocks above.

        Because, unlike pet rocks, AI generated art is often based on the work of real people without attribution or permission, let alone compensation.

        Not use it and instead hire a professional? That argument died with photography. Don’t take a photo, hire a painter!

        So what if AI art is low quality. Not every product needs to be art.

        Do you know what solidarity is? Any clue at all?

        Seems like the concept is completely alien to you, so here you go:

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          Do you know what solidarity is?

          Do you know what a luddite is?

          The simplest argument, supported by many painters and a section of the public, was that since photography was a mechanical device that involved physical and chemical procedures instead of human hand and spirit, it shouldn’t be considered an art form;

          https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/History_of_Photography_as_Fine_Art#:~:text=The simplest argument%2C supported by,in common with fabrics produced

          That a particular AI could have used copywrited work is a completely different argument than what was first stated.

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            Do you know what a false equivalence is? If not, just reread your own comment for a fucking perfect example.

            I’m not wasting any more time and effort trying to explain the blindingly obvious to your willfully obtuse ass. Have the day you deserve.

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          Copyright and intellectual property is a lie cooked up by capitalists to edge indie creators out of the market.

          True solidarity is making AI tools and freely sharing them with the world. Not all AIs are locked down by corporations.

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            Those capitalists support AI because it would allow them to further cut out all creators from the market. If you want solidarity, support artists against the AI being used to replace them.

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              Please explain to me how open source AI allows a corporation to cut creators out of the market.

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        Why not sell it? Because chances are the things it was trained off of were stolen in the first place and you have no right to claim them

        Why not claim it’s yours? Because it is not, it is using the work of others, primarily without permission, to generate derivative work.

        Not use it and hire a professional? If you use AI instead of an artist, you will never make anything new or compelling, AI cannot generate images without a stream of information to train off of. If we don’t have artists and replace them with AI, like dumbass investors and CEOs want, they will reach a point where it is AI training off AI and the well will be poisoned. Ai should be used simply as a tool to help with the creation of art if anything, using it to generate “new” artwork is a fundamentally doomed concept.

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    Another big argument is the large resource and environmental cost of AI. I’d rather laugh at a shitty photoshop or ms paint meme (like this one) than a funny image created in some water-hogging energy-guzzling server warehouse.

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      You’re confusing LLMs with other AI models, as LLMs are magnitudes more energy demanding than other AI. It’s easy to see why if you’ve ever looked at self hosting AI, you need a cluster of top line business GPUs to run modern LLMs while an image generator can be run on most consumer 3000, 4000 series Nvidia GPUs at home. Generating images is about as costly as playing a modern video game, and only when it’s generating.

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    I’ve gotten arguments that it’s theft, because technically the AI is utilizing other artist’s work as resources for the images it produces. I’ve pointed out that that’s more like copying another artist’s style than theft, which real artists do all the time, but it’s apparently different when a computer algorithm does it?

    Look, I understand people’s fears that AI image generation is going to put regular artists out of work, I just don’t agree with them. Did photography put painters out of work? Did the printing press stop the use of writing utensils? Did cinema cause theatre to go extinct?

    No. People need to calm down and stop freaking out about technology moving forward. You’re not going to stop it; so you might as well learn to live with it. If history is a reliable teacher, it really won’t be that bad.

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    We talk about freedom the same way we talk about art,” she said, to whoever was listening. “Like it is a statement of quality rather than a description. Art doesn’t mean good or bad. Art only means art. It can be terrible and still be art. Freedom can be good or bad too. There can be terrible freedom.

    Joseph Fink, Alice Isn’t Dead

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      But does Art don’t need the intention to create it, or at least to declare it as Art? For example, the Meme I made, would it be considered Art even if it was not my intention to create art?

      ( Okay this is less about AI, more about philosophy at this point)

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        I think art is as much in the eye of the viewer as it is the maker. You’ll never convince me that Jackson Pollock was an artist, I simply don’t see the art in his work, but you may have a life changing emotional experience viewing it. My opinion doesn’t devalue your experience any more than your experience devalues mine.

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    I agree.

    I have all these images in my head and zero artistic skills to create them.

    Thanks AI, if indeed that is your real name, for helping me with Visual aids for my teaching work!

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    Using it for stupid shit is fine, especially if it fucks with the AI by making it turn out even more weird shit.

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    what’s the point of a piece of (visual) media if the same thing can be expressed more concisely with words?