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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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Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

@drahardja I 100% agree with the first part of the message. The fact that it takes effort to make images like these and AI de-legitimizes effort by simply generating it.

The second part about watermarks and control over your work after it is released just sounds to me like #CopyrightMentality which is something we have to stop to have digital freedoms.

#endCopyright#endAiArt
Dave Rahardja

@blenderdumbass Watermarking is what some people need to do to put food on their table today. We can decry copyrights while still being smart about how the game is played in the present.

Mar 29, 2025, 08:38 PM·Public·Mona for Mac
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