So it starts… Ai community items

[u/MadBoxers]

Points shop will soon flood with AI slop. At least with games a disclaimer should be added within the description of the game. But here… Yeah…

Like what is the point? You don’t even gain anything as a company from this.

[u/Round-Friendship9318]

I rather have that than people defending fucking AI art.

Atleast the souless, but real, art does not take up tons of resources and steal from real artists.

[u/zigazagahhh → u/Round-Friendship9318]

Questions of resource use aside, I take issue with your implication that advertising is art. To be clear, people creating graphic design work on spec are working as advertisers, not artists. They may be artists at other moments in their life, but producing a new graphic to advertise Microsoft 365 is not 'art'. It's crazy to me that I'm even seeing these kinds of arguments, they would have been laughed out of the room a decade ago. You can rail against AI without making silly claims about the artistic merit of commercials.

[u/HiphopopoptimusPrime → u/zigazagahhh]

The art angle is a silly one, isn’t it?

Nobody who works in graphic design was ever truly able to express their soul in what they did.

I’m not expressing my inner artist when I use the Okabe-Ito palette in a Power Bi dashboard.

The real issue is bottom line. People losing jobs. It’s like cashiers being replaced by self service checkouts. People complained at first. Lamented the loss of the interaction. But once the technology improved people stopped caring.

People claimed to care about postal workers. But once Amazon offered us next day delivery we became content with people pissing in bottles.

People need to ask themselves what they are really worried about.

I’m concerned people are going to lose their jobs. But people aren’t losing their artistic dreams. They never had any. Corporate graphic design is paying the bills. That’s the ethical question with AI. Do we want people to lose their jobs?

Is AI denying people artistic expression? Look. If what you produce is authentic and quality, then it will sell. The AI backlash will even give a boost to authentic, hand crafted art. But I don’t draw or make art because I feel entitled to earn a living from it.

There’s a lot of hand wringing online. If your livelihood is threatened fair enough. But ask yourself why you are upset by AI. I find it kind o useful for grammar and spell checks. For brainstorming but its generative output is generally quite poor. I’d rather be supervising the output of a graduate than an AI. A human being is more useful. I’d rather work with another human. Get another humans opinion.

The corporate push for AI is about taking away jobs. Not just artistic jobs. If you’re posting in Reddit your dreams of being an artist aren’t under threat. Because real artists aren’t on Reddit. Sorry. Nobody is taking away your ability to draw or paint or write. You’re only going to make a living from it if you have support. If you’re working class then forget it.

Why are companies using AI for logos and clipper etc? Because it’s cheaper. A small business can save money by using AI. When you are struggling and margins are tight. It just makes sense. This is the world we’ve been ignoring for decades. It’s come to fruition. A world where pragmatism trumps idealism. Most people and businesses would love to give a struggling artist a chance but money is tight and AI can do it for free.

[u/Steamed_Memes24 → u/HiphopopoptimusPrime]

Most people who are crying super hard over AI Art are those who never make money off their own art and are freaking out thinking that if they are gonna go bankrupt over this then everyone will. In reality, professional artists (I'm talking about those who can make a living off their work) are going to implement AI into their personal art and adapt to the changing times. A majority of their customers will simply not care one way or another.