I saw a gallery show in Portland that made me rethink the whole AI art thing

It was a small place on 3rd Avenue, showing only pictures made by AI. One piece looked like a photo of a rainy street, but the artist had fed the program hundreds of his own sketches first. He told me it took him over 40 hours just to get the right prompt. That's when I stopped seeing it as just a button press. If the idea and the hard work come from a person, isn't the tool just a tool? Has anyone else had a moment that flipped their view like this?

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claire_ramirez2227d ago

Wait, but isn't the 40 hours of work mostly just typing and deleting words? I mean, it's not like painting or drawing where your hand skills matter.

torres.drew27d ago

Right, @claire_ramirez22? It's still real work, even if it's just words on a screen.

fiona5021d ago

claire_ramirez22 that thing about "just typing and deleting words" is exactly what I used to think. But seeing that show in Portland changed my mind completely. The guy told me he tried over 600 different combinations before he got the one that worked. That's not just typing, that's editing and vision and knowing what looks right, same as any artist. My cousin is a photographer and she spends hours in Lightroom adjusting sliders, and nobody calls that pushing buttons.