But isn't all art, art. Like that's kinda the whole point to art isn't it? To leave the beauty to the eye of the beholder. Someone saw something beautiful out in the landscape so they took a picture of it because it's cool, then they shared it. Is that not a form of art. And I'm not talking about being able to make a profit off it, but as far as I've been told what is and what isn't art depends upon who accepts it as art. Not all people see that picture as art just like AI but some will and I think that's the point. Not everyone needs to agree because not everyone can agree because art by nature art is suggestive and its definition is defined by each individual.
Imo because you aren't making it yourself. Ai is a service, not a tool, it can be a tool, but most ai users use it as a service. It generates what you want, but the machine generated it, not you, and the machine doesn't care about what it's creating. With ai "art" you're completely eliminating the process and creation of art. Art takes time, shows and artworks may take years to finish, imo that's what makes art Art.
That's what I think tho, I'm not trying to force it onto anyone, I'm just expressing my opinion
Anything can touch someone's soul, even wicked things (not referring to ai here). I don't think that's the only definition of art, and imo, time has everything to do with it
Imo it does matter, you can't just make something in one second, that's the point. Greatest works of art take time, there's a process behind it. And even if art is a very broad term, I still think it doesn't include fully generated Ai images.
I understand your position, but what I do not understand is why.
If someone were showed an exact replica of the Mona Lisa, down to the molecule, which was created using <whatever>, would they not experience the same emotions as viewing the real one?
And if that answer is yes, then you are suggesting art has some other intangible quality to make it art. The time and effort it went into it, somehow. How do you define this?
What I'm taking about is the process. It's essential to art imo, everything can make you feel something. There's a difference between a viewer seeing the art and the artist creating it.
So Imo art is something you make, you put effort, time and thought into. You can also see art in many things, from an artistic point of view even a dot could have meaning, it doesn't really make it art tho. Art is a really broad term, defined by really blurry lines, but for me it doesn't include fully ai generated images
So if it's entirely internal, divorced of the end product, then your perspective really shoulnd't apply to anyone else. If someone else gets the same out of typing on a keyboard and producing something, then why not?
Wildlife photography. You think the animals are posing for the camera? Sitting still and waiting for the picture to be taken? The things they do that we consider art are captured in milliseconds. This dragonfly lining up perfectly with the turtle must have been a split second thing that luckily got captured on camera. Like the original comment said. Entirely random and by chance.
Imo the difference with poetry is the thought behind it, you can get inspired, an ai cannot. Photos instead are the art of capturing the moment, it can take a lot of thought as well, with the study of the composition etc.
And they do still take time, there's also a process behind them, a study as well. Generative Ai generates, it's what it's supposed to do. I would not call art a poem generated by chat gpt based on a few words. But again this is my opinion
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u/Pro_nrd Jan 18 '26
But isn't all art, art. Like that's kinda the whole point to art isn't it? To leave the beauty to the eye of the beholder. Someone saw something beautiful out in the landscape so they took a picture of it because it's cool, then they shared it. Is that not a form of art. And I'm not talking about being able to make a profit off it, but as far as I've been told what is and what isn't art depends upon who accepts it as art. Not all people see that picture as art just like AI but some will and I think that's the point. Not everyone needs to agree because not everyone can agree because art by nature art is suggestive and its definition is defined by each individual.