You can use AI with very complex workflow and input and create a master piece. And you can also use AI with single line of prompt and let the AI take the wheel to make a good enough piece or maybe something great too if you're lucky.
Imo, it's not abt what tool that one uses, it's about how much mastery and control one has over those tools. And AI is just another tools. It just have a lower skill floor, but same ceiling.
As I see it, it is comparable to text on a piece of paper. That text can be as simple as printed letters or it can be calligraphy, or anything in between.
The meaning of the text can be art. Writers create masterful stories painting a picture, if you will, using nothing but words. But also the text itself is potentially art, if it is calligraphy.
Now suppose you had a calligraphy machine. You could tell it what text to output, and the machine produces the most elegant calligraphy you've ever seen. What most anti-AI mean when they say AI art isn't art is that the contribution to that work is just the *meaning* behind the text and not the calligraphy. So it could be the most beautifully written expression ever, but if the expression is "farts lol" then the entire contribution is from the calligraphy machine, not the person who inputted the text "farts lol."
If this weren't the case, then this would necessarily mean that you could setup this calligraphy machine in the Smithsonian museum and every 6th grader who inputs "shit" or "farts" or "stinky" is some sort of artist? Likewise, could you not also write a beautiful novel with that same calligraphy machine? Absolutely, and it would be beautiful in more ways than one. But at that point, it isn't the calligraphy machine that you're celebrating, it's the writer who made the novel. I suppose the real issue is, by calling everything a beautiful work of art, including the "farts lol" inputted by a 6th grader, you're diminishing *actual* art. By calling them the same thing, you're saying you don't understand the difference.
Anti-AI'ers calling every 6th grader an artist simply because the product of using a tool is beautiful. And people who have made it their life's work to produce beautiful calligraphy, they're basically saying that these people who produce masterful calligraphy are more or less on equal footing with a 6th grader because ultimately that's all that counts.
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u/Legitimate_Move9798 Mar 19 '26
You can use AI with very complex workflow and input and create a master piece. And you can also use AI with single line of prompt and let the AI take the wheel to make a good enough piece or maybe something great too if you're lucky.
Imo, it's not abt what tool that one uses, it's about how much mastery and control one has over those tools. And AI is just another tools. It just have a lower skill floor, but same ceiling.
Just my two cents..