in_finite_jest

in_finite_jest t1_j6c9a8a wrote

I'm an artist and AI art is the most important invention since photoshop, maybe since the camera. I've trained an AI model on my style and have been workshopping it by combining it with different artists. The results are absolutely astounding and inspiring. A few of my friends in the art community say they're getting more ideas than they have in years. One already started a new series based on the art she generated. The only negative thing about AI is the hassle of having to explain how diffusion AI learns and how fair use works to the people screaming about IP theft.

You need to stop imagining all these crazy slippery slope fallacies and see AI as it is today -- a personal assistant. ChatGPT can automate all the boring parts of writing for me so that I am free to focus on the creative parts. AI art engines not only generate ideas but can make me underpaintings or figure references so that I could breeze through the parts I don't like to get to the good stuff. But you're worried about some sci-fi level stuff where a neural net is somehow sentient and evil? Come on. AI isn't going to kill anyone, how would that even work? If you're worried about people monitoring you, there are plenty of anonymizing tools for that.

You've just gotten a virtual assistant who is only bound by your imagination and you're afraid of it. Try learning more about this technology and how it works, that should make it less terrifying.

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in_finite_jest t1_j5puo1f wrote

Most sculptors agonize over how their work looks from all angles. There are usually months of iterating through versions of different sizes to check what every possible perspective conveys.

I genuinely don't understand how this studio could have missed that this angle would become a meme and a source of mockery.

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in_finite_jest t1_j4ilwnx wrote

Fucking hell! I'm an artist too, but that's way too much.

We have more colleges per capita than any city in the US -- why not have a student design an MLK statue as their doctorate or something? King was only 6 months out of school when he led the Montgomery bus boycott, having a student design a statue of him would be appropriate. Plus, the only way a student's project would come out looking like a dick is on purpose.

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