AI Generated 'Art'

[Prof_Sai]

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http://www.process-productions.com/f...t=51422&page=2

The above discussion evolved into making a comic with AI art. I've only seen one attempt at this, which was not good. But I think with some hard work, I could help make something beautiful. However some people are very upset by AI, for reasons that don't make sense to me. Here is a part of that thread:

Originally Posted by ArcaneBEFan

No, it doesn't change my mind, sorry. AI generation can and will be a tool for artists to use supplementing their artistic process. But selling purely AI generated art with minimal or no modification? I don't believe that's an appropriate use of the tool in the society we have.

The point of automation is to reduce the amount of bullshit people have to do so they can focus on important things. Automating away the important things sucks.

Also, anyone generating AI art has just as much right to that art as I do or anyone else does. So why are they selling me things I should already own? It is always ethical to pirate AI art.

And my reply:

You weren't imagining that the AI could output a whole comic on its own, were you? They can't even figure out how the alphabet works!

I was figuring that each panel would need to be assembled from multiple renderings, require extensive touch up, and need to be re-rendered many times to get the right pose and activity. Few AI artists seem to know how to get an AI to consistently create the same people in different poses, but wearing the same clothes. Compositions need to be manually extended and modified to include space for word balloons. Before any of that, we'd need page layouts so we know what to ask the AI for. That could not be automated at all. And of course a concise and efficiently told story that fits in the available number of pages - That's the opposite of what AI stories are like. I haven't seen any sign that anyone has tried to teach an AI about panel transitions or visual storytelling. All of that has to come from the artists & writers.

AI might be able to improve art quality within individual panels, but comics include a lot of hard work beyond that.

I've been enjoying all the new pics on DeviantArt. The idea that it is somehow "Stolen" or "Not art" doesn't make sense to me. If it is "stolen", where are the originals that looks the same? If it is "not art" then why do I enjoy it?