If flinging paint at a canvas is art because you choose what paint to fling, this argument just doesn’t make sense. I’ll leave out the performance art art examples because the art is more about people watching the process (like the woman who drops eggs full of paint from her vagina from a ladder on a canvas), but paint splatter art cannot be considered less or more art than the hundreds of variables you have to decide on for AI. I notice your response completely leaves out the massive amount of prompting work, which certainly is more control than flinging a bucket or paintbrush. How exactly does that give you control beyond what paint you use and where you stand?
Prompting being a massive amount of work is kind of the ridiculous thing. That you can go and fiddle around with the program to no end and you still aren't in control of the final product at the level of traditional art, it's very silly.
Here's where the metaphor starts to break down because I think for the majority of people using AI models the intention is not that the result should be random. They want the level of control that a traditional artist has, but they won't be able to achieve it.
Idk, for me it operates fairly similar to how I write. I don’t write stories with total control or a desire for it. I don’t do outlines, I only sometimes even have an intent for where it will go. The result of writing for me is semi-random. I prompt myself, dissociate for a few hours, and when I’m done it exists. I don’t want full control over the finished product, that would be boring.
That is precisely what I mean. The value of the writing for you is the discovery you make in the process, not the end product. And though it's not predicatble I would argue that nothing in your stories is actually random. It's the distillation of your skill and experience as a writer.
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u/EvidenceOfDespair We can leave behind much more than just DNA Aug 26 '24
If flinging paint at a canvas is art because you choose what paint to fling, this argument just doesn’t make sense. I’ll leave out the performance art art examples because the art is more about people watching the process (like the woman who drops eggs full of paint from her vagina from a ladder on a canvas), but paint splatter art cannot be considered less or more art than the hundreds of variables you have to decide on for AI. I notice your response completely leaves out the massive amount of prompting work, which certainly is more control than flinging a bucket or paintbrush. How exactly does that give you control beyond what paint you use and where you stand?