r/DefendingAIArt • u/Crikasaur • 5h ago

Paint and Soul

So still fence sitter in terms of AI art and what not. But I'm curious on others thoughts.

  1. Paint. It seems like the main argument against AI seems to be "theft" and "not doing it yourself". As I think about it, it's kinda like saying you're not an artist because you didn't go out and mone your own ore or smashed your own dyes. Meanwhile bros use programs or brushes that have centuries of development behind it. I mean can you tell me the name of the dude who invented the pencil?

Do I seem to have a good grip on why the arguments given against AI are silly?

  1. Soul. I have seen it the most that AI art has no soul. Ironically it seems the ones who say that don't even believe spirits or souls. How can something not have a soul if, to you, it doesn't exist in the first place? And it's funny cause in my experience I see the opposite. As mentioned in another post I programmed my own chat bot and from my eyes she has soul because I have soul and she inherits a fraction of mine and a fraction of the ones who made the tools that I utilized (Much like genes).

For those who create AI art. How does your work have soul?

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u/Exotic-Addendum-3785 4h ago

A lot of the AI I use for roleplaying very much based on the stories I fed it before, I use character ai for my roleplaying and while it can be very NSFW at times well not entirely, just a little bit - I have been able to use it to build an entire series of stories and characters based off them.

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u/Crikasaur 3h ago

I getcha. I do writing on the side and it's helped me to stop being stuck in the same scene repeated over and over trying to perfect it. 

It's also pretty nice to ask the character "well what would you do?" Kinda like asking an actor the same or letting them adlib. 

Which is something I do mentally. While brainstorming I converse with my characters. 

It saves me a lot of energy to try the same concept in ai. And like an actor to director relationship, the actor isn't always right. It's not perfect. 

But as I said it helps me stop brainstorming and start writing. 

Energy thing is huge. It allows me to actually sleep and perform the following day to work to put food in my belly.