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PheonixPharts ◴[] No.32462576[source]
I'm pretty unimpressed with the stuff coming out of Dall-E etc (I know, controversial opinion on HN, but bear with me). It's technically impressive, but imho, it still hasn't closed an essential gap need to make AI truly compelling, and still feels like just a modern ELIZA: simultaneously impressive given the technology and a parlor trick.

That said, I'm also not too impressed with many contemporary "artists", especially the type this person is afraid of being replaced with AI.

What I see here is that artists that have turned themselves into art making robots are vulnerable to being replaced by robots that are making art.

As a counter example I present the work of Ben Kovach [0], a generative artist, who makes art with robots essentially. All of his work is generated from computer programs but there are many (and certainly not all) pieces that capture a genuine sense of art that I have not seen in either the slew of human artists churning out robotic work to satisfy customer demand or current generation AI generated art.

Kovach's work reminds me of the work of Factory Record's designer Peter Saville, probably most famous for the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures [1]. In a sense Saville is pushing form the opposite direction of Kovach, trying to use human skills to create art that feels somehow robotic and sterile (whereas Kovach does the opposite, create something that feels more human than your typical machine generated art).

I don't see current generation a threat to art, but rather the trend towards the reduction of art towards being a reproducible, automatic process. That is the art that can be replaced with AI was already art created by an ad hoc "artifical" artist.

0. https://bendotk.com/

1. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/812FS2R2v6L._SL1500_.jpg

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1. thejohnconway ◴[] No.32462747[source]
Ha, yes, I feel many artists have been hacking away at styles that look good pretty much whatever you throw at them. There's a few tricks, and one you get it, you can produce stuff that looks great quickly and easily. It's not surprising these can be imitated by AI.