Twonks | Bluesky

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TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black

AI Design Logic

Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.

Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.

Guy: Wow, look what I made!

  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Out of curiosity, have you ever actually played around with an AI to generate pictures? Spin up a local model and give it a try. It’s a lot more involved than I think you realize.

    It’s not hard by any means and you can let it just s*** out the first thing and take that and run with it.

    But the actual process of generating something coherent and to your intent. Takes a good deal of skill, understanding how the model works, of the English language and how to construct it appropriately, as well as potentially hours upon hours of corrections, edits and manipulations.

    You’re moving the mechanical skill of being an artist to a more literary skill of English.

    I’ve noticed most people seem to have never actually attempted to use an ai beyond The really low end free offerings. And thus don’t actually realize how complex they can get in usage.

    Again, to be clear, it’s not hard to generate just a random picture and take it and run. But it’s also not hard to draw a stick man.

    • kevinsky@feddit.nl
      1·
      7 hours ago

      I use AI regularly and routinely for practical stuff and automation, it’s just in the art department where I really start to take issue with it’s use, because if the nature of what art is to me.

      I have used it for graphical stuff and I feel getting from an AI exactly what you want is about comprable to getting from another human what you want.

      At least in the way you interact with it.

      I understand it can be extremely complex once you need to generate really specific stuff that for example also fits a cirtain style and not just “a guy in a cyberpunk city leaning against a car” or something like that, but all the same you stop being an actual artist and you start becoming more of a manager.

      So I’m not trying to say prompting isn’t a skill, I just don’t think it (the output) will every qualify as an artistic work.