/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I think what truly offends me the most about AI Art is how it takes something that is supposed to be incredibly meritocratic and turns it into fast food consumerist garbage. What is the point of AI Art? What problem does it solve? Eventually, this technology will destroy the IDEA of art careers in exchange for... what, being a fun toy for people to play with?

Something about it makes me deeply uncomfortable, and I'm not just saying that as someone who wanted to make money off of his art. I genuinely believe we're on the verge of permanently losing a fundamental part of the human soul, here. All the infinite complexities that go into a drawing (like how the artist has studied, their upbringing, their own personal experiences and circumstances that caused them to develop their skills in a particular way) and all the expressions of individuality that are present in all those complexities will now instead be bulldozed and replaced by a significantly simpler dozen or so words you can type in a text box.

Consider the implications of this technology for a moment. There will come a point when you see an incredible digital painting that would've taken an artist an entire lifetime of drawing to achieve, and you won't give a shit. Not because it was made by a human, but because you think it's just an AI image. People will stop believing incredible art can even be attributed to humans. We will be flooded with an endless torrent of images that are completely meaningless to everyone except the prompter. Sharing your "art" will become the equivalent of sharing your dreams with others.

It's legitimately horrifying and possibly the closest thing to a truly, unironically satanic invention that has ever been created, not that I even believe in Christian mythology. I have never been a doomer regarding humanity, but AI Art has turned me into one. Frank Herbert was fucking right, we need a Butlerian Jihad and we need it now.