AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by 0c3ca83 on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:38PM (#50064566)

There's also a lot of variability in AI, and it doesn't follow hard rules for what makes "good" output; it's capable of selecting a wide variety of subjects, environments, etc. And it's trained on more art critics than any photographer has read.

Taste is a set of heuristics for what's worked for the taster in the past. AI is very good at heuristics.

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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by nocman on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:38PM (#50078379)

> And it's trained on more art critics than any photographer has read.

Your argument seems to be that because of this training, the result will be better art than the human photographer could produce. I'd say there's at least as good a chance that the training will make the photography worse art than the human photographer could produce.

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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by 0c3ca83 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @05:32PM (#50095641)

Interesting position -- "don't study photography, it'll make you worse at photography".

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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by nocman on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:15AM (#50114364)

A person studying photography is infinitely more sophisticated than a machine training on photographic information. Photographic art is much more than just taking pictures.

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Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill by lifeformed on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @07:46AM (#50086152)

Reading the sum of all writing by art critics is worth less than one random human's earnest attempt to make art.

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