>>532532
>They're simply works where you're able to say "it is unlikely for an AI to have made this".
But the point is, the barrier is already so low that it pretty much matches the same techniques we as humans utilize, so it may as well be allowed to, and count as real art. To give another example, "overpainting" is the technique of drawing/tracing over photographs, and it's considered to be "real art." This technique even pre-dates computers and even before AI art we had the ability to replicate this: just take a photo or picture and shove it into Adobe Illustrator and pick a filter, and voila, you have an impressionist or other styled artwork. Artists have been tracing and painting over photographs since the first camera was invented, and even before using some other techniques:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura
Point of the matter is, if a machine can do it just as well and save us the time, why not count it as real art, then?
>You don't know any candlemakers. They were right. Those jobs can't be sustained any more. If there's more to the argument TL;DR sorry.
FFS, the point of the argument is that it's ridiculous to outlaw a third party source of competition to appease those already within the circle of business. In this case, AI technology. To give another example, amish people make money by baking and selling goods without the use of electric stoves. Regardless of their hard work, they are still easily outcompeted by food stores that can mass cook food and sell it for a cheaper price. Now, in this case, how can amish people hope to compete against modern day food shops? Should they, A: petition to outlaw the use of electricity so they can compete on 'equal terms' with other food shops, or B: should they cut the crap and embrace electricity so they too can cook the amount of food and sell it at competitive prices?
>Your own brain has a register for 'the likelihood in which an AI has drawn this'.
Just because we may be able to tell whether or not a human drew a piece of art, doesn't necessarily embibe it with a 'soul' quality, that's the argument here. Furthermore, even if it were true, you have to take into account that not everyone values 'soul', much in the same way that food is mass produced: yes, it's made by machines built by corporations, sure, it may be bad for us, but do most of us care? Not really. We still buy and eat it. And people still make and buy AI art, they don't seem to care about 'soul' inasmuch as the art suits their needs. Food, even corporate crap, suits our needs of being something to eat, at competitive pricing. What you also must consider is that this isn't a "one value vs. another value" argument here, this is a multitude of different values against a multitude of other values: Sure, I could go eat 'soul food' from an optimistic budding chef in his new startup restaurant, but balance that hope of him serving me good food against the value of me not wanting to spend too much money, my value of propensity towards eating the same food I like at other places, and my value of eating at places which are open at my schedule between work and life. With AI art, its the same thing.
>1. The basic ad hominem that your charizard speaks for the kind of person that defends AI.
Um. What?
>And 2. The UK government has advocated for teaching AI to children in schools. Therefore it's bad. Not just from the pattern-spotting of everything the UK government suggests to do is always wrong, although that's part of it.
The UK also teaches kids that smoking is bad for your health. Is smoking suddenly healthy now? Not everything has to be a conspiracy, you know.
>Competency will go down by leaning on AI
No, competency will SHIFT by leaning on AI. That's why we have the distribution of labor; "no man is an island." Example: Back in the good ol' days, you were expected to be able to know how to knit your own clothing so that you could have something to wear and keep you warm. After automation hit during the industrial revolution, factories were able to mass produce clothing so people didn't need to knit anymore when they could just go down to the market and buy clothing. Due to this, knitting fell out of favor in society, most people today don't know how to knit or even own a sewing machine. However, did society collapse? No. We shifted the responsibility of clothes-making to others, and since we didn't need to worry about knitting, it allowed us more free time from which to pursue other interests, now that there was a class of clothes-makers to make our clothes for us. Same thing happened with farming, carpentry, and cooking. However, even so, the areas didn't disappear even after mass production: you'll still find people who grow their own food and make their own furniture. Artists will still keep drawing even after AI art becomes mainstream.
I'll continue drawing, as well. Although, I love these AI pokemon pics.