Art vs Machine
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@ericwayneart
Artist, philosopher, fool
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They told us we weren’t artists. We answered by becoming the biggest current art movement. Here’s the part that matters most: All art is art. Every medium is valid. Every artist, whether you mix pigments by hand, sculpt light with a lens, paint with code, or prompt a dream, is equal at the table. To the traditional painters, sculptors, and photographers already collaborating with us: thank you. Your open hands and curious hearts are the reason this revolution feels like family instead of war. To every AI artist grinding prompts at 3 a.m.: thank you. You’re proving that vision has never needed permission, only courage. We don’t need to tear anyone down to rise. There’s room for oil, marble, film, pixels, and neural networks on the same wall. The future isn’t “AI art” versus “real art.” The future is just art, louder, wider, kinder, and finally free. So keep creating, whatever your tool. Keep sharing. Keep lifting each other up. The renaissance isn’t coming. It’s already here, and it belongs to all of us. With gratitude to every hand that ever made something beautiful. #AIart #aiartist #art #Artists
They told us we weren’t artists. We answered by becoming the biggest current art movement. Here’s the part that matters most: All art is art. Every medium is valid. Every artist, whether you mix pigments by hand, sculpt light with a lens, paint with code, or prompt a dream, is equal at the table. To the traditional painters, sculptors, and photographers already collaborating with us: thank you. Your open hands and curious hearts are the reason this revolution feels like family instead of war. To every AI artist grinding prompts at 3 a.m.: thank you. You’re proving that vision has never needed permission, only courage. We don’t need to tear anyone down to rise. There’s room for oil, marble, film, pixels, and neural networks on the same wall. The future isn’t “AI art” versus “real art.” The future is just art, louder, wider, kinder, and finally free. So keep creating, whatever your tool. Keep sharing. Keep lifting each other up. The renaissance isn’t coming. It’s already here, and it belongs to all of us. With gratitude to every hand that ever made something beautiful. #AIart #aiartist #art #Artists
@FountainCartoon Actually it is, the old way was much harder.. your exact argument. But you will not pay the rate they would ask today
"Artists are gatekeepers, stop gatekeeping!"
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It's annoying that a lot of instinctive 'no AI in art' reactions come from crowds who barely engage with art, or when they do it's just occasionally going to Cafe Oto and buying some cringe candles from a Bushwick shop. I sympathise with the disgust at boring one shot prompted fluorescent Bored Ape infused aesthetic images, and painful EDM slop with soulless vocals from Suno - but there are plenty of really interesting art collectives who produce very cool/novel art using AI in creative and non-lazy ways. Obsessing over whether a particular tool is used is pointless; there's plenty of bad music with lazy sampling and cliche progressions, bad Warhol inspired paintings in Soho galleries for tasteless crowds, and artisanal movies produced for basic pattern matchers. The issue isn't whether AI is used or not, but how, for what purpose, as part of what kind of process, and so on. The instinctive "if AI = bad" automated reaction is just lazy. Good to be discerning, but if your criteria for evaluating art is an IF-THEN algorithm, I'm afraid you too are a bot. What *is* true is that the marginal cost of Al slop is effectively zero, so flooding the world with it is infuriating. I do cringe when I see a yellowish ChatGPT generated Ghiblified image on a Substack. But this is an inevitable consequence of lowering the barriers of production. Imo the future will require better walled gardens, offline spaces, better matching algorithms, a greater role for tastemakers, and a proliferation of subcultures. In many ways this has been the case when electronic music no longer required analog gear and giant expensive synths; virtual instruments lowered barriers, but there's more quality music than ever if you know where to look.
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Teddy Swims says he sometimes uses AI when making music: "Instead of taking time to reproduce something over and over and over again in so many different ways that would take months sometimes to do, you can get the idea of what something would be fully fleshed out in this lane...If you use it the correct way, I think it's a beautiful tool.”
