• easily3667@lemmus.org
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        16 hours ago

        If you acknowledge that producing a fake image of an imagined idea is art, why is the neural net that produced this picture not an artist? What is your definition other than a thing that produces art?

        How about comparing to the Campbell’s soup can. Is that not art? And yet it’s mass produced.

        If your objection is to the quality, what specific aspect of this image vs the others in this thread, or in life, makes it low quality.

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          If typing a prompt into a plagiarism machine makes you an artist, why doesn’t paying a real human to make art for you also make you an artist?

          If someone said they were the artist of something but it turns out they just paid someone else to do it, would you think they were a talentless jackass or an artist?

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            44 minutes ago

            I’m talking about the machine being the artist, reread my message.

            Nvmd other guy got it

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            13 hours ago

            They weren’t calling themselves artists, they were saying the AI/model is the artist.

            Your comparison is a strawman.

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                  The plagiarism machine vomits out the visual equivalent of text prediction. It isn’t an artist any more than the text prediction on your phone is an author if you hit the next predicted word enough times, people are artists and authors. Image generation is at best a Xerox machine.

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                    41 minutes ago

                    And why is that different from a human? Explain in physical, measurable terms.

                    Give we don’t know how our own brains work, I don’t think you can.

                    And if you cannot, you have to use the things that are measurable, which are external.

                    If I were asked by a person to draw me a fluffy trex, first thing I’m gonna do is go look at pictures of trex and pictures of other dinos with feathers, maybe some fluffy birds.

                    And then I’m gonna plagiarize, because art is theft.

                    Tdlr: get off your high horse