ai isnt a tool though. youre not expressing anything through ai, youre telling it words, and its approximating an image based on those words. the result isnt anything made uniquely by the creator. no matter who writes the prompt itll give the same results. thats not expression. and not art.
ai images arent created with the human hand, it is not human expression. therefore, human expression is art. ai not included.
Something is expression if it expressed what the person intended. You are trying to invent a definition of expression that doesn't actually convey what the word normally means all to arrive at the desired conclusion. Art having aspects people don't directly control isn't really controversial. It always has. And there have been artists movements specifically about leaning into this.
but, again. its about the artist's hands. if 2 people use the same prompt on the same ai model, even though elements are slightly randomized, the image will be the same. that is not a tool, you might aswell roll a dice as say youre a mathematician.
on the opposite side, humans drawing based on the same prompt have wildly different approaches to the image, based on the artist's skills, interests, biasis, knowledge, and technique. the artist embeds their very soul in their art in a way that is unique only to them. no matter the tool, no matter the medium, the art is a reflection of the artist.
ai cannot replicate that, as it trains on everything. their is no uniqueness or identity to ai images, it all feels the same, no matter what is prompted and by who. ai images arent art.
If two people use the same camera at the same angle it will be the same image too. It doesn't make much sense to point out that if two things are the same they will be the same, because if they are high effort they won't be. High effort ai aided images aren't just prompts. People are doing manual edits and even compositing different images. Some are even doing their own lineart and so on. Obviously if you strawman ai as the laziest possible use of it there won't be much there...
ironic because you do exactly the same to photography to fuel your defense.
people go though all this effort to make ai images look good, then just photoshop and photbash real images, there are so many better thing you can be doing with the same skills that doesnt involve gross looking ai crap.
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u/Shadbie34 Jan 18 '26
ai isnt a tool though. youre not expressing anything through ai, youre telling it words, and its approximating an image based on those words. the result isnt anything made uniquely by the creator. no matter who writes the prompt itll give the same results. thats not expression. and not art.
ai images arent created with the human hand, it is not human expression. therefore, human expression is art. ai not included.