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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I think the debate is more about effort and creating something. You can’t be an artist doing AI, the computer is the only artist.
gpt
Right, that was the argument with digital art and photography.

You can't be an artist, the Camera is the only artist.

You can't be an artist, photoshop is the artist.

We learned, over time, gatekeeping these tools and degrading artists wanting to use these tools in their art was a bad idea, and pretty much everyone that criticized these tools is dead and/or irrelevant to the art world and really the rest of society.

It's a bad argument, made plenty of times before, that stems from the same place; a fear of irrelevancy, a fear of new tools, and a fear of losing income. History has shown these fears are only individually self-fulfilling and not actual things affecting wider society. Same thing will happen with AI art.

In fact it already has. Content aware tools in photoshop have been around for a decade, plenty of modern digital art is using the dumbed down cousin to modern AI art. Most people that aren't completely irrelevant don't really care anymore.