You can hardly find a studio the works of which are so thoughtful, kind, and intentional as Studio Ghibli. To stripmine that for its aesthetics, to take a piece of cardboard and paint it like food and say "See, doesn't this taste just as good?" is more than missing the point, it's barbaric, dystopian. It's an insult to life itself. #OpenAI
The negative reaction to lots of non-artists getting the chance to make something they find aesthetically nice and imitating a style they admire is insane.
No person who types a few words into ChatGPT is going to start thinking of themself as better than Miyazaki.
I can understand criticizing the way OpenAI is profiting from this, but please don't call regular people trying out a new tool barbaric and dystopian.
@satchlj @Gargron I've written about this in other places, but the accessibility argument here also really fundamentally misunderstands what art is.
Who told you that you weren't an artist and that this AI slop is better than even the most basic scribbles you put down on a page?
"Non-artist": what does that even mean? Do you express things? Do you have emotions? Want to communicate them? You're an artist.
@satchlj @Gargron The accessibility argument is based on tearing down beautiful things because they're not standardized enough. It's based on dividing people up into artists and non-artists, and then frames this like the critics are the ones gatekeeping.
I'm angry at OpenAI for robbing the world of things you might otherwise create, and I don't care whether those things would have looked perfectly like another artist's art style.
I fully agree there's no quality bar to making art. And you can turn that the other way to apply to AI - even if it's low quality, it's still a valid form of expression!
If you're angry that AI image generation might stop people from becoming 'actual' artists, maybe get angry at camera technology for stopping photographers from becoming painters?
This is one more step in the same direction.
@satchlj @Gargron this is exactly what I mean when I say that people don't understand art at all.
The "quality" is not the problem, the problem is that you have robbed yourself of artistic intent and that the choices and information in the final thing don't reflect you or communicate anything about your original idea.
Look I understand this completely and it's a valid reason artists might choose not to use AI tools. But surely you see that the same is true with photography - the image is a lot less expression and a lot more of something else.
@satchlj @Gargron I would very strongly disagree with this, and I think it devalues photography.