> It's no longer about another person communicating something significant and human to me.
There is a person thinking about the prompt, typing in the prompt, painstakingly selecting the image that matches what they imagined in their head.
It just less elitist, as now even a child can create a complex, meaningful and beautiful images by leveraging the essence of human art (compressed into a single ML model).
I, for one, never had the time & chance to learn painting. Even if I did it as a hobby, it would take me up to a decade to become proficient at it.
And now I can ask AI to paint what I dreamt about last night (!!!), or create an impressionist painting almost exactly like I see it (or even better).
Fun factor is also there: I can see how an anime character could look in real life, or put a movie character in a new context , or just generate cute corgis wearing funny hats and driving cars
> There is a person thinking about the prompt, typing in the prompt, painstakingly selecting the image that matches what they imagined in their head.
Which does make this a type of art. It just isn't the same form of art as digital painting, the same way painting a tree is not the same type of art as growing and 100 trees, choosing one of them and taking a photograph of it. Photography is definitely an art-form, but it's a different art-form from digital painting, even if the end result of the both of them can be a digital image. Not better or worse, but definitely different.
> There is a person thinking about the prompt, typing in the prompt, painstakingly selecting the image that matches what they imagined in their head.
True, which makes it more akin to photography. I'm not saying it's "not art" (I'm saying the exact opposite of that), but that it's not art that is of interest to me. Much like my interest in art photography is very limited. Different people have different tastes.
> It just less elitist
I disagree. I think this whole subject is orthogonal to the concept of elitism. Sure, there are certainly art snobs who take an elitist perspective, but they're a very small segment of the art world.
There is a person thinking about the prompt, typing in the prompt, painstakingly selecting the image that matches what they imagined in their head.
It just less elitist, as now even a child can create a complex, meaningful and beautiful images by leveraging the essence of human art (compressed into a single ML model).
I, for one, never had the time & chance to learn painting. Even if I did it as a hobby, it would take me up to a decade to become proficient at it.
And now I can ask AI to paint what I dreamt about last night (!!!), or create an impressionist painting almost exactly like I see it (or even better).
Fun factor is also there: I can see how an anime character could look in real life, or put a movie character in a new context , or just generate cute corgis wearing funny hats and driving cars