@freerangepigeon: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should? I think part of “figuring out how to make good ai art” is making sure the ai you’re using is sourcing data and energy responsibly- for now, that means ai from big corporations will NOT make good art. #art #Tech #data #contemporaryart
The argument is very simple. AI produced artwork has no human authorship. Art is entirely about human production, human judgement, human care. These aspects are entirely absent from AI produced art.
Prompting is not considered authoring, it's management. This is well understood under intellectual property law.
People producing work this way are cutting themselves out of the creative process and their authorship will go unrecognised. Not coincidentally, they will also be unable to claim ownership or copyright of these works. No human authorship means no copyright.
2026-04-16 08:29:20
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rhizomorphism :
IMO a key property of art is that it captures and reproduces the artist’s intent in someway (photography, collage, abstract expr. do this). AI art must be mediated through the model, fundamentally separating the art from the intent in making it.
2026-04-15 15:32:35
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Alejandro Rodriguez :
Don’t you think we have to make bad AI “art” before we can make good AI art?
2026-04-16 01:09:54
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Jason Waterfalls :
A computer program can't currently be horny or spiteful so I do not believe it can create art. It can mimic art from stuff it plagiarizes.
2026-04-17 20:55:33
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Willie.nillie :
I would argue that the subjects of ai generated images aren't even real. they're inspired by what the ai found that humans have created and interpreted. so really it's a shadow of a shadow
2026-04-17 21:05:51
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J M K :
I once heard that the free market is the worst form of socialism - it privatizes all the assets and socializes all the liabilities. Data centers are a great exemplar.
2026-04-15 13:01:05
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Envisage Architecture :
ohio here, tripled electric bills, Ohio epa relaxed water standards for data centers that have tons of tax breaks.
2026-04-16 10:21:22
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Andrew Wainwright 🇬🇧🇪🇺 :
yes. differences exist between ai and photography. and yes, AI is an energy nightmare, and data centres have many other issues too. but how about similarities between painting and ai? if painting didn't exist and we only had photography, would you also object to painting because it might be used to mislead? 💚
2026-04-15 12:53:02
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sav :) :
everything has a cost-benefit balance. imo AI has valid use cases but art isn’t one of them.
2026-04-21 16:13:34
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batmansleftnut19 :
AI is incapable of making art. no AI image could ever fit the definition of art.
2026-04-16 15:58:23
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lalittleblue :
As a wildlife photographer who’s also a painter, I can tell you that photography, even in modern digital form, takes a LOT of work, practice, knowledge, and skill. There’s the settings, composition, angles, etc. (plus the bird tracking and identification skills and work that’s involved with wildlife photography specifically)
2026-04-21 15:16:00
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JimMVincent :
totally agree with the half of the take about ai based on art from others without their consent. I could probably argue that photography was not as harmless as you imply. the impact of manufacturing cameras and chemicals for photo development isn't zero
2026-04-15 17:10:17
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Lu :
Is photography an art? And if it is, in what moment it becomes a art form?
2026-04-16 11:17:09
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hassan reda :
Ai can just replicate it can’t experience human feelings, it can’t for example understand the weight of a glance of two people who can’t express their feelings it’s just a tooool
2026-04-17 15:19:58
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martina :
The idea that photography is real… no. You can do incredible things with models, angles, lights, different kinds of exposures. One of the first uses of photography was that fairy hoax - the fairies weren’t real obvs but they were photos. I agree with everything else you’re saying haha.
2026-04-16 09:19:06
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Epipoiesis :
The environmental impact is real, but it's also misrepresented. Streaming on Tiktok drains orders of magnitude more energy than creating AI images. And they're processed at the same type of data center. So I wouldn't make the environment argument in a Tiktok reel. That said, yes, it all is incredibly sketchy.
2026-04-16 10:29:57
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mmmateib :
How and why are your takes so perfect all the time???
2026-04-15 14:04:34
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Bárbara Palacios :
This! Thanks! ❤️I've never been the kind of people who goes against technology just because. I actually like it. I like the idea of progressing as a society, that doesn't mean any new thing needs to be good and goes without criticism.
2026-04-15 16:57:34
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JOSHUA :
THANK YOU!!! I was so hoping for this follow up and the photography comparison. Love what you’re doing so much 🖤🖤🖤
2026-04-15 14:36:18
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Samantha Leigha Brow :
I see a lot of peoples takes here coming down to using it as a “helper” “refiner” or “jumping off point,” but the thing that it still comes down to at the end of the day is that small little prompt is still a drain on our resources! That is a proven thing at this point. This shouldn’t have been released in the way it was and I understand that art can be hard and scary but why are we rushing so quickly into dispensing of anything that is difficult? It’s only through practice that things become easier
2026-04-16 03:50:59
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Brett :
I think it makes media until a time when and if it has an internal life and creates as an act of self expression
2026-04-20 15:20:55
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ColdMagnet :
She doesn’t miss
2026-04-20 05:19:29
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Archer :
Then what’s collage? What’s mixed media? What’s all the art that uses more than one thing to exist?
2026-04-23 13:08:34
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Joseph Winn :
I'm interested in your thoughts on the comparison between AI art and sample based music. I don't think many people would argue today that Fatboy Slim or Basement Jaxx isn't art. I definitely echo your overall opinion in this video personally but I find it an interesting comparison to ponder
2026-05-16 15:28:12
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