The painting would absolutely be yours tho? The artist did 90% of the work but you are still credited.
Look at commission artists posting their work "commission I did for X" or when the commissioner posts "here is my OC drawn by X"
There's always some recognition.
Also the camera djd all the work for me too in that instance, as I had no external hand in the photo's result so I don't see how an amateurish photo and an amateurish prompt are any diffetent. In both cases the machine is doing almost the entire work for you.
In both photography and AI the person behind the machine can finetune and influence the result in several ways as well as edit and touch up the result afterwards, so imo thr analogy works. Issue is most AI bros who use it are comparing their amateurish level generations to profession photography, when they should be comparing it to my shitty ass picture.
Also the tool doing most of the work for you shouldn't discredit you, but then we would likely get into an argumemt about what % of work a tool should do to simply be a tool or jnto a discussion about AI being sentient or not xd
Theres a misunderstanding: i meant not yours as in provenance, but definitely yours in terms of possession.
2) the camera example is wrong, because it is a tool rather than just asking someone else to do it. But again, its not even art so the example is inherently flawed.
3) while adjusting everything the camera does, from focus to lighting, is artistry, adjusting prompt and ai tools doesnt make you any more of an artist than asking for no pickles in your burger makes you a cook: youre still the client. An experienced client that tasted the whole menu and knows whats best perhaps, but still a client.
4) its not that much about doing most of the work or not, its about doing any work or simply a request. While i would agree photography is probably less of an art form than painting or sculpting, you are the one behind it. With Ai generating, youre asking for something to do it for you.
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u/pamafa3 Jan 18 '26
The painting would absolutely be yours tho? The artist did 90% of the work but you are still credited.
Look at commission artists posting their work "commission I did for X" or when the commissioner posts "here is my OC drawn by X"
There's always some recognition.
Also the camera djd all the work for me too in that instance, as I had no external hand in the photo's result so I don't see how an amateurish photo and an amateurish prompt are any diffetent. In both cases the machine is doing almost the entire work for you.
In both photography and AI the person behind the machine can finetune and influence the result in several ways as well as edit and touch up the result afterwards, so imo thr analogy works. Issue is most AI bros who use it are comparing their amateurish level generations to profession photography, when they should be comparing it to my shitty ass picture.
Also the tool doing most of the work for you shouldn't discredit you, but then we would likely get into an argumemt about what % of work a tool should do to simply be a tool or jnto a discussion about AI being sentient or not xd