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@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space

2026-08-31 10:21 UTC

In fact, it has become harder and hard to tell if _some_ things are generated by #AI. Yet these things all share some pretty common qualities: they are highly derivative. So if it looks like a stock photo, psychedelic nonsense, a low effort infographic, or generic fantasy... well, you're probably going to get a pretty decent looking piece. What all of the above have in common is that they are human #slop. Yes. Human slop. Content mills, most commercial art, shit sold to stoners and metalhead on T-Shirts. It's all art that was produced and optimized for #Capitalism (the first and most powerful #AI). What makes something slop is that is is vacuous and derivative. It lacks any kind of genuine creativity. So, by itself an AI can at best make slop. And, I really don't feel at all bad about human slop artists being automated away. Much as I don't really feel bad about portrait artists being replaced by cameras. We do have to ask how #Goya earns enough of a living to paint Jupiter without portraits, but this is not a new problem. 3/

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  • @AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space 2026-08-31 10:26

    God, I'm only at 4? This is going to be a long post. Okay, but what about so called "#AIArtists"? Are they making #art? Well, this gets a little more complicated. I mean, the answer is unequivocally "yes", but you have to understand a few things. The first is that searching for a thing which is meaningful is a form of art. "Found Art" is a thing. Then there's location scouting, appropriation art, moment photography, and readymades. So, what an AI Art Prompter is doing is searching a high dimensional vector space for a virtual representation that has meaning to them. It is not the act of prompting which makes it art, it is the meaning which the creator attributes to it that makes it art. (err... I guess we're skipping 4...) 5/

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