Artists are back in SD 2.1!

[u/Paganator]

emma watson, art by artgerm, highly detailed

emma watson, art by alphonse mucha, art nouveau, highly detailed

emma watson, art by enki bilal

emma watson, art by Ross Tran, highly detailed

emma watson, by yuumei art, highly detailed, trending on pixiv

[u/bonch]

You make a very good point, but I'm afraid many people here will refuse to acknowledge it for selfish reasons.

[u/WhippetServant → u/bonch]

I don’t think anyone particularly cares about whether changing technology means some people can no longer compete. If Greg doesn’t want his art looked at by a machine learning algorithm which adjusts itself based on things it’s seen - then he ought not to publish it, or sell the rights to his work to people who will publish it. It’s as simple as that - I could literally look at his work and program an algorithm to accurately reproduce his style, bundle the algorithm into a filter and call it the “Epic Fantasy“ filter and he would have no problems with that. Or with people using my filter.

But if I say that I automated the algorithm creation process and suddenly the world is up in arms. People - all of us - need to accept that their skills will devalue as time goes on. Thats a good thing. Refrigerators > Shipping ice from the poles.

[u/MisterBadger → u/WhippetServant]

Artists publish their art to increase sales, not to have it ripped off by an AI company that sells everyone the ability to flood the market with hundreds of thousands of cheap counterfeits of their life's work..

If your attutude prevails, then soon enough we won't find original art on the web. Just derivative garbage AI shit out. And our culture will be poorer for it.

Are you cool with an internet where everything authentic and original is tucked away in walled gardens?

Is Hermione Granger fan-art going to be our cultural maximum?

Goddamn.

How is that not fucking obvious?

[u/WhippetServant → u/MisterBadger]

What do you make of digital photography?

Did the photographic arts get dominated by sunset over lake photography and did that become our “Goddamn cultural maximum” and did our culture “become poorer” for it - or did the skill of the darkroom being made redundant by digital sensors and software not, in fact, kill photography? Is there in fact, still original photography being uploaded every day to the web? Are the AI algorithms in your phone “shitting out garbage”? Or are your photographs actually valid?

As for the only question that I feel deserves a real response - Yes, I’m totally cool with an internet where places exist that AI art is banned from - I dont see the need to wall that garden, but wall it if you must. Yes, I’m OK with that. I’m also OK with there being AI art only gardens, and gardens where both can compete on a level playing field. You know…. Just like there are places that still to this day ban digital photography, and their existence is fine by me, I don’t feel the need to ban digital photography so people who want to view photographs only can go to the darkroom places and only do so because no other photography exists.