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01: A girl labeled 'Artists' is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says "We don't really wanna MAKE A.I. art."
02: A guy labeled 'Art Enjoyers' holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says "We don't really wanna SEE A.I. art."
03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says "Um ... I-Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?" She is labeled 'Shareholders'.
04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. 'Artist Enjoyers' Guy is now in front of her yelling "AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!" while 'Artists' Girl is in front of her yelling "WE'RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!!"
I find all digital art to be basically worthless, but at least the artists have a point of view or something to say. AI cannot do that. It can attempt to generate similar styles, but without anything to say, the "art" is just slop.
This is why I meet artists, and buy their works physically. Tangible work, mistakes and all, like pen and paper, or sculpture or jewelry etc. But I get that is just personal preference.
Eventually (and in some cases already) digital artists will just incorporate AI into their tool set, just like they did with shaders, and paths, and filters and all the other digital tools. At that point is it really AI art, or is it simply algorithm assisted? The works have something to say, the tool just made it easier to do so. We all know there is no such thing as AI, its just noise to image math formulas, the direction has to come from somewhere.
What is art is always in question: look at the giant hotel and mass produced art factories. Is it still art, even when humans made it, or is just a factory on production mode?
I really wish the corporations would shut the fuck up and quit pushing "AI" that is not AI though.