• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    23 days ago

    I remember sitting in an art class where the teacher proclaimed using premixed black paint was improper: a true artist must mix their own black paint. I thought a lot about that when I first started using Photoshop and viewing digital art. I think about it now with AI.

    Right now AI is a tool of MBAs who see it as a way to extract money from budgets by cutting costs on artists and writers. AI’s only proper use is as a tool by artists and writers.

    I disagreed with that teacher then, and still kinda do, but I understand them completely: they were focused on fostering the artistic drive of the creator and eschewing shortcuts. I just think the artistic drive includes so called shortcuts as there is no predefined or ‘true’ path to being an artist.