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AI “art” is just soulless. Everything is too clean and perfect, assuming it doesn’t churn out some uncanny shit.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. There is no bad or good art.
They nailed the smile way better than the other one.
It doesn’t even look like the same dog. And where are the flowers coming from? What is this supposed to be, bizzarro world?
I don’t think that 2nd place drawing is necessarily repeating the same dog.
The addition of the flowers gives me “tattoo of a pet that died” vibes, which makes the 2nd place drawing feel much sadder than the first place drawing.
Oh man I remember the debates around this being really illuminating. Like some people really don’t see how heart can outperform technique
Here’s some of mine. I might go back to making more.
gut bisect
Gut pull is S tier
These are great
i love gut pull
That art was made with meaning and soul, no mindless soulless machine can ever do that
I mean it’s much more popular now than it ever would have been otherwise. I’m going to say that even in a hundred years it’s going to stand above its contemporaries.
The story is just so human.
I always imagine that Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff will be looked at by people 1000 years from now the same way we look at old art with weird babies and ass trumpets.
Truly high art
I’m sad that I forgot about Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, but I’m happy to see it again
this post is NOT free of homestuck
This is actually a really good point. Culture paved the way for the sheen of hyper “detailed” AI art (many of the details fall apart on close scrutiny, but I digress) by making it seem like “amateur” art is bad while “professional” art is good. So that means if a tool comes along that supposedly makes it so you can sidestep sweating over your amateur art and go straight to pumping out the professional-looking stuff, that’s a win. It’s good to question this assumption.
Yeah like hyper realism. Just print it bro (I don’t like hyper realism, there is no creative part in it IMO).
There were lots of similar discussions when the camera was invented, turns out it did take the job of soullessly copying things in paint away, but got used as a tool by artists.
There is no art in AI and will never be, but as it gets better it will be used as another tool for learning etc I guess.
Brutalmoose: Must go quick!
Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is a stone cold classic.
The sock ruse was a… distaction.
