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Dave Rahardja

This post by photographer Jingna Zhang resonates with me.

art is devoid of humanity, intention, and backstory. It’s a shallow remix of human works, designed to be consumed and discarded, grinding human creation down into a sandy paste, to be re-extruded into grotesque displays. It’s the opposite of what makes art so valuable.

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A Facebook post by Jingna Zhang. Shown is a photograph of a pale woman with closed eyes and dark red lips covered in flower petals. Next to it is a prompt: “Make her eyes open. Make the image very similar, from the the colors, composition, the tone, the feel, including the frozen eyebrows, make it as similar as possible.”, followed by an AI-generated facsimile that is similar, but with eyes open. The post reads: Someone passed my photo through OpenAI's new image model, and no matter their intentions being well-meaning, seeing this as the original artist just makes me feel like shit. I did this series when my work wasn't being as accepted and was viewed as neither commercial nor fine art enough for either worlds. So I shot in my apartment, with flowers one of the few props I could afford. And for this shoot I sat with a team and applied petals onto the model, one by one. The final work is a crystallization of that experience and memory of those times, it's proof of the days l'd lived. An Al didn't sit there placing petals onto my model, and it feels like an insult to the memory when people go "Al can do this!", like no actually, I did that.
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Dave Rahardja

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I think this person wanted to show that images with glaze/NS aren’t protected in new models—but this is an img2img, which glaze has always said isn’t what it protects against, and everyone in the space know this. I just don’t need a reminder of how easily people can remove my watermark, try to bypass glaze using models/techniques it wasn’t designed to protect against, or do whatever they want with my work against my wishes. I can respect how far current gen Al has come from a purely technological point of view—credit to the researchers & scientists, not the marketers, not the prompters—but genuinely, what do we need this so badly for, that it would outweigh all the humanity, stories, and history being stripped away from our lives?
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Sharp Leaves

@drahardja I feel so terrible for her. What dickhead thought taking an artists work and 'improving' it through AI was a respectful way to interact with an artist who's work you appreciate? And if you don't enjoy it, fuck off and mind your own business.

We call AI art slop, but AI has also allowed sloppy people to get involved in art. The real warped hands are inside the heads of these idiots.

Dave Rahardja

@BoysenberryCider That’s basically ALL of AI art—taking other people’s work and treating them like commodity raw material with which to construct something vapid and soulless, for quick, nutrition-free consumption.

This post is also relevant: sfba.social/@drahardja/1142441

Mar 29, 2025, 08:36 PM·Public·Mona for Mac
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@drahardja @BoysenberryCider

that's how i describe what capitalism generally does to culture. the Ramones became a logo on a t-shirt, the significance of their music erased for the sake of making a new fashion of the week.

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Sharp Leaves

@burnitdown @drahardja good observation!

The tendency has always been there, but like everything about capitalism in 2025, it's lost all veneer of moderation and just become mask-off exploitation without apology.

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@burnitdown @drahardja

You reminded me of this piece of brilliance as well, criticising a roughly similar phenomenon from a fan's point of view.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=5bYXb7iE

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