Re:Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
by bmitc on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:44AM
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Art isn't about statical copying or drawing well. It's about human expression.
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Re:Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
by Gigachad on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:57AM
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These generated pieces look extremely similar to real human art so they look very expressive to me. And you can even add your own input by hitting refresh until you get something similar to what you wanted.
Re:Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
by peoplefromibiza on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:04AM
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> And you can even add your own input by hitting refresh until you get something similar to what you wanted.
that is the exact opposite of creation.
I'd put it this way: this is the IKEA of drawing.
Re:Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @04:52AM
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I hear what you're saying, but at the same time, there's a ton of mass-produced, low-creativity art out there, where the objective is not to express oneself but to churn out products with the intent to make money. This is not just in artwork, but in other design based things like e.g. website designs as well.
Re:Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
by capableweb on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @06:18AM
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There is definitely a difference between art and mass-produced art. In the beginning, we only had art as an expression of human creativity, and it's not until later that we got mass-produced art, whose only goal is to provide profits for the author(s). It'd be useful to distinguish the two in conversations like this.
Re:Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
by adrianN on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @07:44AM
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It doesn't seem far fetched that in the near future an "artist" doesn't need to be able to draw at all. If GANs or the like become sufficiently tunable, I can express myself by telling the GAN what I would like to have drawn.
Re:Welcome to Waifu Labs v2: How Do AIs Create?
by bmitc on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:35AM
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That's certainly a possibility, but is that intelligent or are paintbrushes already intelligent? :) In other words, in that case, it would simply be a tool directed by an intelligent being. We have that in many senses with generative and other computer-based art.