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this post was submitted on 11 May 2025
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What a crock of shit. You clearly haven't lived with talented people. I've had roommates that I got to observe their daily habits and while they did work and practice, much of their skill came from how their brains and muscles were wired. Talent is very real. To assume every accomplishment that out shines another is simply a product of greater training and effort is an excuse of the ignorant.
I'd also suspect there are things that may not be "learnable" -- if you don't have great spatial perception or colour vision, that might not really be a skill than can be practiced.
It doesn't mean you can't do art either. Art is not only "faithful representations of reality". Heck, that is probably the most boring and useless definition of art one could think of.
Edit: nevermind, just read another comment equating art's value to its financial success. Now, that is an even more boring definition of art.
The most impressive art is when people learn the rules well enough to ignore them.
Disabled people can make great art. They can also hire someone else to help them; people who work succeed more together than apart.
I also think that having someone make a nice image is not worth the sheer amount of electrical energy and water cooling needed to power the datacenters.
Counterpoints:
This 2 year old
This 19 month old
This 5 year old
A 6 year old
Cringe news station, but 3 years old
And lastly, for now, Chloe Chua at 9 years old with decades level violin mastery (she can also play the piano).
I am one of those poor coders that need simple art for their project and i know a better solution than AI
https://itch.io/game-assets
People have aptitudes. The idea that a you could put 100 people in a room with the best teacher, and they could all become excellent artists, is hopeful but naive. But yes, even with talent a person has to work hard and practice. The word "talent" implies that the person worked hard to develop the skill. I agree we shouldn't downplay the amount of work that goes into specializing, but let's not pretend that means there's no such thing as talent. Some people have a knack for things that others don't, I've seen this firsthand on so many occasions. These knacks are what can be turned into talents.
So let's not downplay a person's natural aptitude by saying "well you just worked super hard, anybody can do that."
In my work place we hired an intern who was pivoting careers and wanted to learn a new skill. The company was doing well, so we kept her on so long as she was trying. We patiently worked with her for years, but the skill NEVER clicked. She came from a robust background, so she was clearly capable, but we eventually figured out that she didn't have the talent for it. She eventually decided that career wasn't for her and left for another company - and in her new position she picked up on the different and required skill super quick. Our brains are elastic, sure, but they're also hardwired in all different ways.
Put 100 people in a room with the best teacher, and the 1 student that likes the subject the most will be the best student.
There's different levels of interests between the students. A student that is very invested in the subject is going to learn more than a student that wishes they were doing anything else. That's what happens when something "clicks" - when a student goes above and beyond the taught material because they're always thinking about it. "Talent" is indistinguishable from enthusiasm.
Sure, there are literal cognitive differences between people, but 99 times out of 100 "talent" is just passion imo
It's this. Everybody else's take us missing this. I play a BUNCH of musical instruments, and when people are like, "Oh wow, how did you learn to play all of those. You must be so talented!" And I always say, "Time. Time and a lot of practice. And most importantly a LOT of patience with myself".
The thing is, to get good at something, you have to be bad at it first. And many people simply do not have the passion to keep pushing through the part where they're bad at it.
there is true talent though, that comes from having something that others in a given role don't have. Think about Kareem Abdul Jabar, Usain Bolt, or Tiger Woods. Kareem is ultra tall, immediate advantage in basketball. Having even a modicum of hand eye coordination is an immediate jumpstart that others just wouldn't have, and the innate advantage of being tall isn't something someone can get with practice. Same with Usain Bolt, long legs, genetics that make him innately faster. Tiger Woods was golfing incredibly well at age 5. He of course would have been good at several sports, but the hand eye coordination was there, the skeletal structure that allowed these movements to be trained more efficiently.
People who are "talented" might start out at a better point in a field than others but they'll hit a wall where they have to actually put in work to go further, that comes all at once instead of in small steps.
One of the animators behind The Little Mermaid had aphantasia.
There’s also experimenting with more abstract forms - playing with color and shape. Art doesn’t have to be a picture of something.
I am sorry if the article offended you.
My point is that anyone can do art. If you can make marks, you can make art. I would worry about leaning too much on the “imagination” of the computer, and I do not consider AI generated images art.
I'm with you on all of your points actually (it's photography all again), but you did post it in /fuck_ai 😁
Where?