But people were bad at assessing whether images were made by artificial intelligence or an artist.

But people were bad at assessing whether images were made by artificial intelligence or an artist.

  • bhmnscmm@lemmy.world
    84·
    8 months ago

    Photography is just pointing a camera and pressing a button. It takes no skill.

    See, it’s easy to be reductive.

    How do you define art? Is it dependent on the amount of “skill” required to create it? What even is artistic skill? Is one allowed to use auto-focus for a photograph to be considered art? Do you have to develop your own film?

    These are all irrelevant thresholds on the inputs for something to be considered art. What determines whether or not something is art is the output of a creative process.

      • bhmnscmm@lemmy.world
        51·
        8 months ago

        Everything you just listed can be human inputs to AI generated art. Humans still drive/manipulate the inputs, it’s just in a different way. A human can still come up with an artistic vision or idea and manipulate the tools (prompt) to that end.

        Obviously you can use minimal creativity to get unremarkable AI art, but you can do the same in photography with a point and shoot camera. It’s about the creativity and artistic vision, not the tool.

        I agree, there are tons of photographs a computer can’t generate. Because it’s a different artform. Just as there are tons of paintings a photographer could never create.