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Talked to a guy at a coffee shop in Boulder who convinced me AI art isn't just copying.
I was working on my laptop and this older guy, maybe in his 60s, saw my screen. I was messing with a Stable Diffusion model, making some fantasy landscapes. He asked about it. I gave my usual spiel about how it's just remixing existing stuff. He was quiet for a second, then said, 'So was Picasso. He looked at African masks and made something new. The tool isn't the artist. The person telling it what to do is.' He used to be a painter. That one sentence flipped a switch for me. It's not about the data it's trained on, it's about the intent behind the prompt. How do you guys think about the creative part of using these tools?
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the_mia12d ago
Honestly feels like people are trying way too hard to make typing words into a box sound deep. It's a cool trick, but comparing it to Picasso learning from other art is a stretch. The guy at the coffee shop had a nice thought, but the intent behind a prompt is just giving orders to a machine that does the actual work. Calling that the real art feels like we're lowering the bar for what being creative even means.
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joseph_hart11d agoTop Commenter
Yeah, I saw a whole article about that exact point, @the_mia.
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