Art and Humor

Perhaps not quite entirely directly related to art, but aesthetics plays a role....

snoball said:

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I don't know whether to make a laughing face or a crying one!

Artyczar said:

I don't know whether to make a laughing face or a crying one!

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We'll have to get used to working in a world in which AI exists; genie is out of the bottle.

brianvds said:

We'll have to get used to working in a world in which AI exists; genie is out of the bottle.

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Perhaps artists felt the same way about the invention of photography.

Joy said:

Perhaps artists felt the same way about the invention of photography.

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Quite possibly, and in the end, photography didn't destroy art. If anything, it improved it.

Too early to tell what AI might do, partly because we cannot predict just how good AI might become at art, or the extent to which AI art will keep on requiring skilled prompt writers. I fear many illustration jobs may go away (photography killed off such jobs as, for example, newspaper illustrator), which will affect fine artists indirectly, because lots of suddenly unemployed illustrators will then pour into the fine art market. But at this point, we don't know.

One thing I'm pretty certain of though is that all the lawsuits are pointless. AI art does not infringe on legal copyright, and it is not going to get sued out of existence anyway. Within two decades everyone will be used to it and wonder what all the fuss was about.

Remember Napster? That was going to utterly destroy the music industry, and even worse, mean the end of professional musicians? It got hammered with legal proceedings (I seem to recall that its boss was even imprisoned?). And today? I cannot remember when last I paid for music, because everything I want is available for free on YouTube. Doesn't seem to prevent good musicians from making a living. But musicians had to adapt (and now, with AI music, they'll need to adapt again).

Us artists will have to adapt or find other jobs. It's as simple as that. I don't like it any more than anyone else.

I'm having a discussion with a local curator who "lumps" digital video, photographs and digital art into a single category - digital works. Is it a strange way of trying to isolate AI art from "real art"?

We're having a coffee in the next couple of weeks, hopefully I'll get a clearer idea of her thinking. So far ... "the larger galleries are doing it" is her short response .. "it's the latest way to group art".

Anyone had this crop up ..., or have thoughts?