Ai Art - The Human Touch?

AI art isn’t art, it’s more like a high-tech image blender. It’s great that AI art has possibilities, but it’s also got its drawbacks. One of the main criticisms is that it doesn’t have the emotional depth of traditional artwork. It seems like a lot of people aren’t fans of AI art because it’s not “real art”.

It lacks ‘The Human Touch’

While AI can copy styles, it can’t capture human creativity and imagination.

In the end, AI art destroys the gap between artists and the rest of us. It lets people who don’t know how to make art make it without having to learn.

Will AI destroy Artistic Creativity?

AI Destroys Real Art!

In a dystopian future, if all surgeries are performed by robots, there won’t be any skilled surgeons left to develop new techniques because there will be only mass-produced machines that can do only a few things well.

To make something truly revolutionary and new, you have to learn the fundamentals and work on it from the ground up.

If AI art becomes the norm, then it stifles those who might come up with anything new.

Ghost In The Shell

The 1995 anime movie has a quote, “When you overspecialize, you breed in weakness. It’s slow death.”

In the future, most people have some cybernetic implants inside them.

Section 9, a law enforcement agency, realized its reliance on cyborgs was limiting it, so it had to diversify it’s talent pool.

Movies explore existential questions about selfhood, humanity disappearing, and the threat of us becoming unfeeling machines, desensitized and unempathetic vehicles of progress.

The quote is from a conversation between Major Motoko Kusanagi and her subordinate Togusa. She mentioned how Togusa’s body and mind almost completely being human during this conversation.

Many Section 9 employees, including Kusanagi are cyborgs.

As Kusanagi understands the inherent problems of standardized groupthink, it will be helpful to have Togusa’s “human” qualities.

Hayao Miyazaki ai art — *Image of Hayao Miyazaki using hotpot.ai*

In a recorded presentation, Hayao Miyazaki, a longtime famous anime director for Studio Ghibli, said:

“This is an insult to life itself.”

He was commenting about an emerging type of AI technology that game developers were looking into.

In the same interview, the presenters who showcased their technology also said that they wanted to make an AI that could create Art as real as a Human.

Art Styles & AI art generators

In short, the AI system takes art from several artists and mixes them up to make AI artwork, and the artists do not get credit.

Some of the more common AI styles I’ve noticed are directly taken from Studio Ghibli, Genshin Impact, etc.

Using AI to create art is insulting to the original artists. Even tracing, or referencing a style that’s recognizable as theirs is disrespectful.

If AI databases only contained public domain art, made for AI to use, the current AI ‘Art’ would look awful.

In the absence of stolen artworks, AI art generators don’t look like art.

What is Real Art?

You can’t reduce art to typing prompts and relying on an algorithm based on other people’s (and developers’) work.

My whole idea of art is translating something you feel inside, into something that exists on paper.

It doesn’t even matter what it is, whether it’s a sculpture, music, or writing, true art is about the creative process way more than it is about the final product.

There are two types of artists, someone that imitates and someone that reimagines.

Imagination is something only a human can have, much like ….dreaming.

A piece of art isn’t just about the final result; the process is important.