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Thought AI art was a cheap gimmick until my kid showed me one at the kitchen table
I've been drawing and painting since I was 12, so when my daughter pulled up an AI picture last month I rolled my eyes and said it wasn't real art. She typed the same prompt into two different tools and got one image with three arms on a guy at a bus stop and another with lighting that honestly looked better than what I do in oils. What got me was when she changed 4 words and the mood flipped from rainy sadness to warm summer evening, and I couldn't stop staring at it. I still think the person writing the words matters more than the machine, but I can't call it nothing. So where do you draw the line, is it the typing or the picking that counts as the art part?
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wrenstone28d ago
My brother ran the same prompt six times last month and got a guy with two left hands in one and something that looked like a real photo in another, so I get the whiplash you felt. The part that hooked me was how much the words matter, because when I typed "fisherman at dawn" versus "old fisherman at dawn, foggy" the whole thing changed and it felt like my choice, not the machine's. Picking the prompt, tossing the bad ones, and knowing which four words to swap feels like the art part to me, same as deciding which brush to use.
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