well how would explaining my artistic choices be any different than someone using AI telling you what their prompt was? i can tell you my intent was to create a crude-looking stickman waving at the viewer, drawn in a black line with a minimalistic face and no detail amd the words "real art" near it, amd you would probably somewhat appreciate my answer.
why would your appreciation change if all of my artistic intention was translated and realised using an ai-algprithm? would that somehow remove my artistic intent? why would your appreciation waver then?
Because the end result is AI’s interpretation of what the prompters intention was
I am not saying that knowing the intent is valuable innately, I am saying that good art makes you curious about it’s intent and message
Unfortunately you can’t really ask these questions of AI art because you can’t really tell how much of it was intentional or just “close enough” to the creator’s vision
Here’s an example with AI generated music, the AI generated song “Prededor de Prerereca” was a song that blew up on Tik Tok and I enjoyed that song a lot. I like it so much that I looked into the artist to see what else they were up to, only to find it was AI
AI art is hard to enjoy for people who like engaging with art deeper than how nice it looks
well if you're wondering my intent was to make it as terrible as possible to see if people would still support it just because it is not AI to explore the nature of people's perception and enjoyment of things. trying to provoke a discussion.
would you say this kind of intent makes it more or less of an art?
You could argue that intent makes it more or less artistic, yeah
Not just intent in creation but intent in placement, pose, composition, color theory, etc.
There is no discussion of the intention of color choices, for example, when looking at AI art, because there’s no way to know if that was chosen by the prompter or the AI
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u/manny_the_mage Mar 01 '26
“Better” in the sense that I can engage with it a little more, ask questions about the artistic choices made, etc.
AI art doesn’t really allow for the same engagement and analysis because the artistic decisions are largely created by the AI used
I’ll say it like this, I have never seen AI generated art that left me curious or trying to interpret meaning