David W. Sime’s Post [Video]

Out of curiosity, I entered my own name followed by "in a cyberpunk style" as a prompt - this is what Midjourney came back with 😆

Here's Markos Kay's latest work https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mrkfolio_flora-fauna-ai-generated-video-art-inspired-ugcPost-6963109089908244480-ZoDc?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=android_app

The technology is great, but why do these artists always create morbid looking images, are there not artists who produce more enlightening images?

I love the questions you raise. For me anything that stimulates us to stay in touch IRL and brings curiousity is great and art should do that. Anything that continues to send us deeper into ourselves and live avoiding reality and building community, isn't.

David, could this same AI generator produce spatial renderings of cities commmunities from existing photos, scans, etc.?

Not everyone can create this art. The fact that an artist is behind this is quite clear. What AI does do is open up creativity for a lot of people and this also means pushing artists forward too. I wish we could have better informed conversations around AI and art that tend to be either "anyone can now make this" or "none of this is art" - neither of which is true.

The answer to your question is quite simple: value decreases proportionally with abundance. To create such results without tools like Midjourney is extremely difficult, very few can do it, so the value is high. Nowadays, anybody can do it, so the value with decrease. The same happened to photos. Do you value a photo today, taken by someone who spend 1 second to tap their phone screen? We have an abundance of (crap) digital photos taken with phones, stored in cloud, which nobody cares about the next day. The same will happen with these "AI" (which, as a side note, has nothing to do with "intelligence", btw) generated images/videos. I would argue that in a few years, no one will be impressed anymore, once they become mainstream.

Everything I’ve ever seen generated by AI has been disturbing. Not one or two, not some, but literally all of the AI generated art I’ve seen is unnerving.

Just wonderful to see this AI art form take flight. I think it’s the closest thing I’ll see to alien artwork. There’s an unearthly quality to the work - you can tell it has no visual human lens. The detail is often uncompromisingly high and unexpected - the perspective slightly twisted as if no one point of view is considered as a rule. It’s hyper real, abstract, fractal and again often uncomfortably lit with slightly poisonous palettes. It’s incredible. And I say that as an hyper real illustrator, now art director for games. Am I threatened by it? Not at all. It’s another magnificent creative tool/comrade to bounce ideas off. It’s another response - our job is to curate or create a visual that evokes a special and specific response not in a vacuum, but in a very specific and ever changing context. I don’t see it doing that as well as a human for humans - for a while yet. I see it as a style influencing human art work and becoming an important ingredient within the visual development of brands, fashions, entertainment and yes the metaverse. And yet it also feels like it’s fiddling while Rome burns within its biologically free vacuum, as we hurtle towards a future where humans are less relevant. 🥹 Or, sunnink innit😁

Art created by AI will forever raise ethical issues in my opinion. I don't believe typing a sentence and having a machine learning algorithm create an image for you to classify as art. Art is created from experience, with emotion and for something grander than just the act of making something. AI does not create with emotion, only humans can do that. Maybe I am too opposed to it, but I do believe it has its uses. Just not as legitimate, valuable art.