An AI Artist, as in, someone who uses an AI tool to create stuff, would use a different skillset as well.
“Skillset”. Please, an AI artist can only be the AI itself, because an AI user does not do what defines an artist.
The tiger is a cat fallacy only works if you want to treat a tiger like a cat because of some shared trait
Indeed, that’s what you did. You used the common trait that they are tools to place them on equal footing, despite the very clear differences between them that necessitate different approaches to both (which I explain a second time below).
If condemnation, why did we not condem other forms of mass production.
Other forms of mass production kept skill or introduced other areas where skill is necessary. Other forms of mass production kept jobs quality and fulfilling. AI does neither, because it is designed to kill jobs. And the few jobs which remain shall be completely inconsequential and minute compared to the work done by the AI itself.
As to what counts as a quality job, that is up to workers to decide. That drivers are revolting against self-driving cars is a good hint.
A few hundred years later, everyone can post a perfect picture on the net.
Again, misleading text. Everyone could have posted a picture online in seconds before. I also object to the word perfect.
The mass production of paper and other such tools did not decrease the skill necessary to draw. It simply allowed everyone to realize that skill.
With AI, there is little to no skill involved because you’re not even the one drawing, so it’s beyond a stretch to call the drawing “yours”.
No hand mixed colors needed, no years long training, no canvas, just a button press and an activated filter or three.
And what is the meaning of that painting? It makes you feel guud? How does it feel, having a painting worth as much as the few words you’ve typed on your keyboard? Have you expressed yourself and your feelings, or is it merely the AI’s interpretation of your words? At that point, just hang the words on the wall. Have fun showing off the meritless paintings on your wall to another dude with meritless paintings on his wall. I’m sure he’ll care. Christ, that sounds awful. That’s exactly what I mean by slaves and degenerates in my previous post.
Artists copy from each other without consent quite often and there is a thin line everyone has a different opion about, what is ok and what is not ok.
Is this not comparing AI to human intelligence? When a person copies they improve. Even with tracing a person improves their motor functions. When their AI superior copies, nothing happens to the person.
Something previously hard to do and only with special training and experience is now available to the untrained to do for a fraction of the price.
That something hard to do remains hard, because those untrained people still do nothing. They never drew and they never will; their AI will do it for them. So a better description would be “is now available to the untrained to order for a fraction of the price”. Very self-centered, when you consider the real artists.
Are you talking about chinese sweatshops now, where they paint on canvas? Yes, that is a thing.
I’m talking about AI-based drawings. These Chinese sweatshops may be a thing, but it means little; greed is greed.
Did I say StarTrek is good or interesting? No. Does it matter to the discussion? No.
I did not say you did, but I say it certainly matters, because half the reason people want this automation nonsense is because of naive visions like that of Star Trek. Your starry-eyed description of supposed drawing at near-zero price suggests you hold nothing against the idea.
Your mistake is in thinking automation will improve people. It will not. It might improve the quality of an end-product, but not people. They will stay as they were, and with near-zero work (near-infinite convenience) they will rot away. I value people more than I value machinery and end results.
Your approach lies in nitpicking minute details in my points, glossing over the rest and repeating the same things over. I do not intend to convince you – as far as I see, you are dead-set in all of your beliefs – I intend to showcase readers why your view isn’t so clear-cut. I think my points are clear, so I see no reason to continue.