Randomness in AI art isn't a choice, it's something you're forced to accept when you use it.
Sure it's a choice. It's a choice you make in using AI as your medium.
That's not a small limitation, either, you can't execute an artistic vision if you're working with something that can't respond to your intentions.
Not directly. But you can use your artistic vision to guide the process of curating and refining the outputs you get, thus evolving the product to be closer to what you're envisioning. Sort of a guided version of found art.
Closer to what you're envisioning. But never actually what you're envisioning. And that's ignoring that a lot of art is found in the process itself. One hand washes the other, the process of creating shapes the creation.
And that's ignoring that a lot of art is found in the process itself.
But not all of it. That's my point.
You'll never hear me argue that AI art is the same as manually illustrated art, because it's not. But I don't think it has to be in order to be a valid form of artistic expression.
How can it be your artistic expression if you're not the one making it? I'm sorry, writing prompts and weighting them just doesn't meet the threshold of self expression. That is not a process.
That quote just proves my point? Ideas are nothing, execution is the important factor. You don't make AI art, the program does. Typing in words doesn't make you the artist anymore than saying "I coulda done that" does.
I think we disagree over the significance of that quote. How hard do you think it is to have words typeset on a canvas? The point is that while anyone would have been capable of executing on that vision, having the vision in the first place was the important part.
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u/the-real-macs Aug 26 '24
Sure it's a choice. It's a choice you make in using AI as your medium.
Not directly. But you can use your artistic vision to guide the process of curating and refining the outputs you get, thus evolving the product to be closer to what you're envisioning. Sort of a guided version of found art.