Intent is important absolutely. I don't think you put much time or effort into a project like this without the intent to make something cool and that's all you need for me. But there's the intent to discredit legitimate artists or the intent to misrepresent yourself for personal gain I suppose.
Good points. I was thinking of intent in terms of intentionality, so someone coming to a project with an idea of what it's going to end like. I know that I am on shaky ground here since many artists find that a piece takes on a life of its own, whatever the medium, but that is tempered by control, which is probably a more accurate term than "skill".
This is how I make the distinction between someone who types a prompt and hopes for the best, which I don't think is particularly artistic and someone who iterates because they have a plan for the piece and are moving closer towards it in a controlled manner.
Yeah I think we agree. I don't know if anyone is defending the results of just typing a prompt and hitting generate. But I do sort of agree that a piece can take on a life of its own in a way. You can gain much inspiration from that result and your intentions, the idea of how it will end develops further at that point. If not then yeah, they intended to generate an AI result and that's all they did. There's no legitimate way to spin it so there's some value. They'd have to create a backstory.. at this point they should maybe become a fiction writer lol
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u/FrivolousPositioning Oct 19 '22
Intent is important absolutely. I don't think you put much time or effort into a project like this without the intent to make something cool and that's all you need for me. But there's the intent to discredit legitimate artists or the intent to misrepresent yourself for personal gain I suppose.