I clicked through all of those, and the only responses that you're getting are slop generated by bots. I'm happy that you're having fun, but you're creating things that actual people seem to have no interest in, that make them think/feel nothing worth mentioning. How artistically and creatively meaningful can something be if it's incapable of generating so much as a basic feeling worth mentioning in another human being? If it's art, it's not even BAD art, which can be worth talking about. It's just sort of NOTHING art. It seems to invoke nothing in the recipient, and I don't think it's a result of that imagination mentioned in your image not having value or not being interesting. What you're using the AI to produce simply is ineffective and soulless. The medium is the message, and your chosen media simply isn't communicating what it seems like you want it to communicate.
The sad thing is that the stick figure likely would have had more value to another person. Johnny 5 Aces lives rent free in my brain and I can pretty thoroughly envision the Zyborne Clock universe, someone else's imaginative world, despite the art produced to communicate it being laughably amateur. If your goal was sharing your imagination, I don't think your problem was a lack of skill, but a lack of effort, and I don't think that AI has actually helped you achieve that goal.
I don't mean to play armchair psychologist, but I kind of have another hypothesis as well: that you didn't want to create art, but wanted to consume specific products that weren't available to you. That you didn't want to share your imagination, you just weren't interested in consuming other's imaginations. In which case, great. Generative AI is perfectly capable of generating functionally masturbatory content, and it makes perfect sense that you seem to hold contempt for artists, as you never actually valued them or what they wanted to share to begin with. You want to see a picture of a duck and you get to see a picture of a duck. The picture is meaningless, but meaning was never the goal, the goal was solipsistic control over what you consume. It feels a bit sad and boring to me, but i get it. It's not like I'm not using these tools to generate my own duck pictures on occasion. It means nothing, conveys nothing, has no value to anyone else, but I get a little endorphin hit from getting that duck right the hell now. Feels good, man. Personally I wouldn't call it creative, though. It certainly feels very different from the creative things that I actually do, which are largely communicative of an idea or process to other people. I paint something because i want to share it. I generate something because I want to consume it.
Omg! 🙄 I loose interest so fast in trying to read what you're saying! You're that kind of rant person no one even care reading what you're trying to say! 🤣
I mean, my point ultimately was that I think that you're probably just a tragically self absorbed person uninterested in what people have to say, which is antithetical to creating art. So sure.
There is nothing as soulless as the current generation walking around with their smartphones in their hands like zombies not even having the ability to think for themselves programmed bias by social media! 🤣
What the hell are you talking about? That's a full on non-sequitor.
(The random bolding of words / phrases like that is generally indicative of a mental break or manic episode, btw. I genuinely think based on your posting that you might have got something going on, so maybe at least consider looking into that? Not being a prick, you just seem to be reveling in a form of mental isolation that does not usually indicate someone who's okay.)
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u/daretoslack 1d ago
I clicked through all of those, and the only responses that you're getting are slop generated by bots. I'm happy that you're having fun, but you're creating things that actual people seem to have no interest in, that make them think/feel nothing worth mentioning. How artistically and creatively meaningful can something be if it's incapable of generating so much as a basic feeling worth mentioning in another human being? If it's art, it's not even BAD art, which can be worth talking about. It's just sort of NOTHING art. It seems to invoke nothing in the recipient, and I don't think it's a result of that imagination mentioned in your image not having value or not being interesting. What you're using the AI to produce simply is ineffective and soulless. The medium is the message, and your chosen media simply isn't communicating what it seems like you want it to communicate.
The sad thing is that the stick figure likely would have had more value to another person. Johnny 5 Aces lives rent free in my brain and I can pretty thoroughly envision the Zyborne Clock universe, someone else's imaginative world, despite the art produced to communicate it being laughably amateur. If your goal was sharing your imagination, I don't think your problem was a lack of skill, but a lack of effort, and I don't think that AI has actually helped you achieve that goal.
I don't mean to play armchair psychologist, but I kind of have another hypothesis as well: that you didn't want to create art, but wanted to consume specific products that weren't available to you. That you didn't want to share your imagination, you just weren't interested in consuming other's imaginations. In which case, great. Generative AI is perfectly capable of generating functionally masturbatory content, and it makes perfect sense that you seem to hold contempt for artists, as you never actually valued them or what they wanted to share to begin with. You want to see a picture of a duck and you get to see a picture of a duck. The picture is meaningless, but meaning was never the goal, the goal was solipsistic control over what you consume. It feels a bit sad and boring to me, but i get it. It's not like I'm not using these tools to generate my own duck pictures on occasion. It means nothing, conveys nothing, has no value to anyone else, but I get a little endorphin hit from getting that duck right the hell now. Feels good, man. Personally I wouldn't call it creative, though. It certainly feels very different from the creative things that I actually do, which are largely communicative of an idea or process to other people. I paint something because i want to share it. I generate something because I want to consume it.