Imagination rule

As much as I have issues with AI, I feel like it would actually help you get your imagination set down in a way you could actually show people? Like I can think of a wonderful scene in my head, but I can't even draw a straight line with a ruler and you want me to draw that scene? Hell no, and lack of ability isn't lack of imagination, it's just a skill issue.

Drawing however is a vital part of the creative process. Creativity is not only about getting your mental image on paper, but also to learn and hone your limits as an artist.
Bob Ross said that stuff about "happy little accidents" for a reason.
- Trust me there are a lot of accidents with AI generators
- So a ~~paraplegic~~ quadriplegic can't be creative? 🤔
  Or, let me rephrase because this is a serious question testing the limits of your statement: what impact would you say being ~~a paraplegic~~ unable to perform basic motor functions has on someone's ability to create art, given that (according to you) they cannot perform such critical parts of the creative process?
- I'd argue that creativity shouldn't be linked to technical skill. I've met people who have really creative ideas and solutions that they couldn't carry out because they couldn't weld, machine, do carpentry, paint, draw, or otherwise carry out their idea. Are they not creative? Sure, to be a great artist you need those skills, and using AI does not make you an artist as a result, but using AI to demonstrate your creativity shouldn't be demonised. Creating AI using other people's IP without their permission should be demonised.
The issue is when people use chatgpt or whatever to form a reply for them, like i get that people can't draw hence cannot implement said imagination, but...word? It doesn't have to be fancy, just type out what they have in mind. It happened right in Lemmy as well.
Dunno man, sounds like an imagination issue.
- Sounds like you can't imagine how shit I am at art

AI art is real art because people get mad at it

AI art is real art because people made it.
- Anyone can make a work.
  Not every work is art.
Thomas Kinkade agrees. Or his ghost-artists do, anyway.
You know what, I'll accept this.

Okay. I write lyrics and have Suno turn them into full songs to make wife laugh. My wife laughs. But according to you I don't have any imagination because I'm not a multivocal singer, can't play any instruments, don't have my own band to play for her on demand? Fuck off.

For personal use I see little issue with it. If you, however, start publishing them, suppressing other voices and/or making money off of it, it becomes less clear.
- Well, I've shared my creations because I think they're funny too, and maybe other people will, but I'm not gonna put them on an album and sell them! I'm just arguing the creative side of it. Those tracks wouldn't exist without my lyrics, and I typically go through a bunch of "takes" to get the melodies and rhythms I want, so for someone to say there's no imagination involved feels thoroughly unfair to me.
Yup, get good
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They're a replacement for skills and knowledge, not imagination.

This is why people point out that they lack skills and knowledge.

I am all of the issues to some degree and AI outputs to me just seem like dairy-free maple-coconut water cheese. So personally I'll just stick with nothing (substantial) until the format/workflow that I'm looking for (hopefully) becomes viable for me.
Luckily writing a book or painting hyper-realism are not the only type of creativity.
(also funnily enough, AI currently is just a different set of skills/knowledge especially for the better results or wrangling custom inputs/training/adjustments etc)
= Particularly what I can run locally, w/a 1050Ti. But also just really most examples of AI (aside from maybe the stuff that is either extremely overproduced/hand-picked or potentially faked)

I understand not liking AI but you don't have to be a jerk to aphantasics to do it

That and you need to be pretty imaginative to get some nice results from prompts
- "boobs big tits heavy chesticles smothering me to death"
  Nice
Aphantasiacs have imagination though, it's just not images
- You are correct, what would be the correct term for this? I tried looking up 'no imagination' and all I got was results about aphantasia.

I prefer to do it the old fashioned way:

who needs imagination when you have algorithms to do the thinking for you? 😜

This was chat GPTs attempt at writing a funny reply to this post.

'Write me a reply, that gets upvoted by the Lemmy OG IT bubble' ;)
- GPT: “What’s Lemmy, lol”

I've had some really cool image ideas I would have never been able to create myself, so take your artist elitism and shove it.

Just pick up a pencil!
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Look up what people used to say about digital art and tell me if history repeats itself or not

I was actually there. The backlash against digital art usually came from:
people who were otherwise already elittist towards one or two painting styles and media,
art gallery regulars (they can't sell JPEGs or PSDs),
poor people as back then graphics tablets were way more expensive and alternatives to Wacom also worse (the patents for their battery-free pens haven't expired yet), thus it was cheaper to buy paint and/or markers.
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lmao the proompter cope in this thread is real

Maybe other people just enjoy something and there's no reason to put them down for it. I wish I knew something you enjoyed so I could make fun of you for it. Sad person.
- ah yes im so very sorry, i should have kept the feelings of people who gladly feed on stolen labor and exploitation of the global south for their slop generator to work, in mind uwu
  fuck outta here lmaoo

The reality is 99% of people that create images or music have little to no real creativity, it's far higher for text.

You can be crazily creative with thrown paint and make images you can stare at for hours or you can do the most generic shit with a hundred brushes and 12 years of art education.

Of course a creative person can use ai in fascinating ways to create visually stunning images. The better tools get the more control we have over output and the more intricate and ¹complex the things we'll make. I've seen loads of really cool things from ai which are every bit as creative as anything else, as with all art you have to seek out creativity and originality.

I’m pro AI at this point. Any use it has in the real world have and will continue regardless if AI art somehow gets restricted. AI is choosing who gets jobs, doing the work previously done by humans, and companies will continue this trend.

Being able to create art that is good and makes someone money is already a 1% kinda thing (I don’t mean money-wise, I mean just the ability to earn money as an artist at all). If we can’t save the rest of humanity, artists are just going to have to join us.

the indomitable human spirit: nuh uh :3

Excuse me, I have no imagination but I don’t resort to AI

Based!

I believe that people with a good imagination actually make use of Ai better, they can generate way more interesting prompts.

Then the choice of where to do inpainting and outpainting with further prompts is a very artistic decision.

I like these apps to help me come up with ideas for different story concepts.

I use it to kickstart my email replies. I'm a great editor but terrible at creating from scratch.

ChatGPT is great for yapping about patriotism for a school history essay, but It's completely unable to write anything useful or sensible. So I'll keep on doing things like art, storywriting and programming myself, but I'll use whatever cheats I have available for the pointless things I'm forced to do.

Jokes on you, I don't need AI to tell me that. I couldn't make a good build in Minecraft if you held me at gunpoint.

The ability to speak doesn't mean you're intelligent.

there is a lot of nuance in the discussion, but a lot of people just want a quick black and white answer. you can use AI to supplement other artistic projects (like using AI to create images for a comic you wrote), so i don't agree with the premise of the post

but i also don't agree with people who say that AI is just another tool. i think that it is a paradigm changing tool, that is going to make us have to rethink how we interact with art.

You can do wild shit that's barely possible with any other tools.

You can feed in images instead of text, or alongside it, and turn blobby sketches into photoreal renders.

You can describe contradictory nonsense and get a decent effort to square the circle.

You can keep saying more, more, more, and get exaggerations revealing an adjective's visual essence.

... but yeah, folks keep posting "woman naked anime" five hundred brainless images at a time. So few people are even making comics with this shit. Do they not understand each panel is its own little drawing? You piece together what you need. Story exists in the edit. Not even the people with a paragraph of "Remember, if you lose--" dialog in ev-er-y fucking image have figured out they can just show that now.

don’t let this turn into r/196

What happened to r/196?
- They have an irrational hateboner for anything AI related

yes, that's exactly me

I dont have an imagination of my own and still I dont use AI

Does this count for AlphaFold 3 and other similar ai’s?

Looked it up, it's quite different (actually useful) than the programs that imagines things instead of a person that writes an article.