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This post by photographer Jingna Zhang resonates with me.
#AI 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.
#aiArt #art #plagiarism #artist
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@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.
@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: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/114244101787898752
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.
@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.
You reminded me of this piece of brilliance as well, criticising a roughly similar phenomenon from a fan's point of view.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5bYXb7iEDJ4&pp=ygUhcGFpbnQgYSB2dWxnYXIgcGljdHVyZSB0aGUgc21pdGhz
@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.
@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.
@drahardja the part about placing the petals is something I don't think folks think about a lot. There's so much tiny, practically invisible, detail work that can go into creating an artwork. An intention at each step, a thought process about each element of detail, each petal.
@ReverendMoose @drahardja and as @pluralistic puts it, they are the result of tiny decisions.
“Art, in other words, is an act of communication – and there you have the problem with AI art. As a writer, when I write a novel, I make tens – if not hundreds – of thousands of tiny decisions …”
@peterfr this makes sense because AI has nothing to communicate, and in fact can't even understand what's being said.
Mehdi.doc @drahardja To add more context : Jingna Zhang is a reknowned artist of the DeviantArt 2000s era (her account was named Zemotion), and she built Cara, a website and app for artists, as an alternative to Instagram when Meta announced content would be used for AI generation.
@drahardja Thank you for sharing this. I totally feel for her. I would hate for any of my work to have this done to it, for similar reasons. They mark a point in time and all that connects to it.
@drahardja that's why she created Cara, I'm on it and no AI is allowed
@drahardja The text ending with the post-collapsing *See less* in bold is serendipitous. It's like the platform software is agreeing with her. "Look, I'm software, and _I_ hate this AI bullshit."
@drahardja During the optimistic years after plastic was invented, it was considered very valuable, it kept its colour and could be moulded into any shape.
At this time there was an interesting article written called 'the future of plastic is in the bin'. It correctly predicted that its future was in fact for throwaway cheap crap that doesn't last long and has no real value.
I feel that is the future of generative AI art. We hear breathless stories about its power but it's already seen as cheap trash. If a presentation or article includes AI art it already tells you it's throwaway. It is a visual sign that the article has spent no time or effort.