RE: Determinism and Creativity and why we're so fuzzy
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When you speak of human creation in terms of art, ai kinda goes against the core purpose. To connect people.
I am fascinated by ai in the context of progress, leveraging it for a more scalable business, and love of the Terminator series of movies :) That being the case, I get s greasy feeling from ai art in visual and audio formats. The slop is piling up on the internet and making real art more appreciated.
With ai, we are less of an artist and more of a curator with our prompts. Though with the care and attention…and chemicals it takes to edit and evolve that output of the tools back into individual, random and unique art, that works.
There is room for ai in art but it is the artists that truly make the art and have to choose their tools carefully to make it authentic.
Well said.
Paul Delaroche was an incredible painter. On the invention of photography, he said "From this day, painting is dead." He was a French dude, so probably pretty dramatic. But here we are, still enjoying his paintings, and the paintings of others so many decades on. I'd argue that some of his renderings are completely unsurpassed by modern artists - he told the narratives of his time using the best skills he had. And they were nothing short of incredible. I have a print of his work in my hallway. I look at it everyday.
Yes, we can curate prompts. I've done that before, at length - and if you dig far enough into the blockchain, you'll find that creative process and my train of thought as I worked on stuff that I dedicated probably too much time into. It is laughable given how much progress the image models now have - but they are still highly deterministic with their outputs - new models such as Qwen more so, when even moving the random seed by millions of numbers, still produces a result very similar to the seeds that are numerically distant from it.
I have not heard any people at the local gallery openings I've visited despair about how AI art will destroy their creative practice. It hasn't destroyed mine, in fact, it has given me another series of tools to use - and knowing when and how to use them is an important element in understanding why the injection of our human imperfection into the process makes that human imperfection so special.