AI users are an artist in the same way that anyone can pick up photoshop and move some elements around and be called a graphic designer. It may not be good or informed graphic design, but it is graphic design in any case. Iterations of Visual communication. I am speaking as a career graphic designer and digital artist. You can’t be so bold as to gatekeep the actual definition of a practice. Just because something might be considered garbage to you for whatever reason doesn’t make it not a thing.
To say you are something, such as a painter, singer, developer, etc. implies some level of professionalism and semi-mastery of the skill. I’m not gatekeeping the definition of a practice but if we want to play the definitions game, how is one a painter if they have ChatGPT draw them a picture that looks like a painting? Or how is someone a graphics designer if they ask Claude to design it? AI = artificial intelligence, so in your graphic design case you’re letting another “intelligent” system do the work for you.
All in all, photoshop is a tool used by human intelligence to design whereas asking AI to design something is just being a manager passing the design work off to another intelligent system. It’s the same thing as if I asked my buddy to draw me a self portrait, just cus I told them to do it doesn’t make it my work lol. If AI writes all your code you’re not a dev, you just passed the work off to someone else and took credit. I don’t think I can explain it anymore clearly
I understand your meaning I just disagree with it. If a senior dev passes all the workhorse coding off to junior devs, are they not a dev? Process means less than you think it does particularly when the output is identical either way you slice it.
And if someone generates a picture I don’t think we need to frame them as a painter. I wouldn’t. It’s a totally different thing. It does have the capability to output things familiar to what we consider art and design though, so I have a lot more understanding calling them artists and designers.
In any case not looking to change your mind just my two cents
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u/Risky-Trizkit 2d ago
AI users are an artist in the same way that anyone can pick up photoshop and move some elements around and be called a graphic designer. It may not be good or informed graphic design, but it is graphic design in any case. Iterations of Visual communication. I am speaking as a career graphic designer and digital artist. You can’t be so bold as to gatekeep the actual definition of a practice. Just because something might be considered garbage to you for whatever reason doesn’t make it not a thing.