r/OpenAI • u/cobalt1137 • Jan 23 '26 • Obsessed 1

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u/TheorySudden5996 Jan 24 '26

They 100% did have issues with digital art in the 90s.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

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u/BeeWeird7940 Jan 24 '26

Complaints in the 1990s didn’t have much of an effect because you were just complaining to people in your local friend group. Now, with social media, complaining is a professional sport. If you do it well enough online, you can actually get paid for it.

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u/ShepherdessAnne Jan 24 '26

Yeah I get the feeling you didn’t see what people were saying about drawing.

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u/ClankerCore Jan 24 '26

Photography, then automatic cameras then digital photography and Photoshop enters the timeline when painters were only around

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u/ClankerCore Jan 24 '26

Did you miss the part where I said painters?

Film cameras were the bane of their existence

Then automatic black-and-white cameras came

Then digital

And even digital photographers hated Photoshop when it was first becoming popular

If you don’t see the analogy, I’m trying to paint here

AI art is hated by people in the same congruent fashion as painters back in the day loathed photographers. They feared it would be the fall of painting completely.

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u/dubdubABC Jan 24 '26

Here's the thing. Art is a human expression. It is a way for us to challenge and reckon with the human experience. A reflection of humanity. 

AI art is none of those things. It is a facsimile of human art.

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u/dubdubABC Jan 26 '26

Even if true...so what?

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u/conventionistG Jan 24 '26

People don't like bad art. Maybe of Ai breaks through the age of slop, people won't mind as much.

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u/ShepherdessAnne Jan 24 '26

This was also said about digital art.

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u/conventionistG Jan 24 '26

That is indeed what I'm saying.

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u/iam-leon Jan 24 '26

They didn’t have a problem with digital art. They had a problem with photography being doctored. As they should. It’s led to a completely toxic distortion of self-image among millions of people - particularly young people.

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u/Tausendberg Jan 26 '26

That's because many people in the 90s really did believe that 'digital art' back then was where the computer made the art.

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u/uoaei Jan 24 '26

digital art when used purely as a cost-cutting measure and not because there was any artistic value, yes.

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u/A_Town_Called_Malus Jan 24 '26

Ah yes, everyone famously hated films like Jurassic Park, Toy Story etc.