/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I don't understand why artists are upset about AI art.

Sure I get the fact that the market will be flooded with crap, but it already is flooded with crap.

As an artist, you have to spend countless hours honing countless technical details in your work. Isn't it the best thing ever that an AI can do the hard work for you so you can focus on the big picture and unique details that are more fun to work on.

>But it steals artwork!

So have you if you've ever taken an art class, gone to an art museum, or have seen any piece of art and still remember it. Your memories subconsciously inform every aspect of your work. The only reason AI is being called out for it is because of overfitting to prompts based on existing artists, which is something that is easily fixed and far from an existential, unfixable problem. Should we require all future artists to never look at or be inspired by existing works because it's "copying"?

It's the coolest thing to happen to tech in 30 years and for some reason so many artists are crying like babies over it while technologists continuously iterate and improve. A lot of these models are open source, there's nothing keeping you from joining in on the fun.