US Politics on Sidechat | AI “art” would look good if it was actual artists doing it but actual artists aren’t using it because making art is the fun part. The process is the fun part. Every single artist makes things that will never be seen by anyone

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AI “art” would look good if it was actual artists doing it but actual artists aren’t using it because making art is the fun part. The process is the fun part. Every single artist makes things that will never be seen by anyone

Anonymous 1d

As a polymath, I have been studying computer science and making digital audiovisual art for over a decade now and I have always walked the line between human and machine. I have been working with Al since 2019 and l actually use a few different Al processes in my recent art, although they are embedded rather than being holistic. This makes some of my art kinda "Al art" but kinda not "Al art." I literally do not fit into your binary.

Anonymous

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The process IS the fun part, and that's the whole point. I spent dozens of hours on my last track chopping samples by hand, automating five layers of pads, playing synths into a DAW. I used an AI stem separator on the drum sample and a TTS voice I wrote and directed. Those are two steps inside hundreds. Nobody prompted a song into existence. The tools held what I already built so I could keep building.

Anonymous

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I fell in love with vocoders in 2015, six years before I released anything. Abstracting my voice through machines IS my aesthetic, not a shortcut around it.

Anonymous

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Same in my visual work. I shoot the footage, then use ML retiming to get slow motion the frame rate couldn't capture, upscaling to make old work usable, and generative crop expansion when I need a few more inches of a sky I actually photographed. The image is mine. The machine extends it. That's a prosthesis, not a replacement, and we've been doing it since the first darkroom.

Anonymous

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And I'll go the other way too. Sometimes I generate an image as a reference or a sketch, the way you'd pull a mood board, and then build the real thing myself. Sometimes I take a generated piece and manipulate it until it's something else entirely, which is just compositing, which is what I went to school for. Scaffolding comes down before the building opens.

Anonymous

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Yes none of what you’re describing I would include as AI art. I feel like it’s obvious I’m referring to typing in a prompt and hitting enter. Then going back to prompt to change something and hitting enter. I’m a graphic designer and I definitely have to extend the sky of a photo or remove something from a background which in this day and age are “AI” tools but it’s not an AI design.

Anonymous

OP 1d

Then where's the line? You extend a sky with a model trained the same way mine was. I prompt a reference image and build from it. Both of us are directing a machine and keeping what works. I think the line is real, I just think it's about origination and discernment, not about whether a prompt box was involved anywhere in the process.