An AI won first place at a state art show.
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"AI" is just a tool that someone has to tell what to do.
"AI" is also incapable of creative thought. All the algo can do is scan 1 million pictures of hotdogs, and then attempt to draw you a hotdog, and most of the times it can't even do that, so you have it attempt to draw many, many hotdogs, and you pick the best one.
And you probably open up photoshop and "clean it up" too.
Then you lie and say "omg look at this art the AI made with absolutely no help from a human" even though you are the one who kept fine tuning the parameters to get what you wanted, you are the one who had it shit out 1000s of garbage results so you could pick the "best" one, and you are the one who took the best one and digitally edited to make it look less like an AI made it.
I shat on this story on reddit, and a bunch of AI-worshipping tech bros came out to downvote me.
They probably think Elon Musk is going to give them full self driving Teslas next year, too.
A human painting a hot dog is not going to just mechanically fuse together every hotdog he has ever seen in his life.
He is going to remember a general impression of hot dogs, and then create his own based on various factors including his mood, plus any creative additions.
A neural net algo can't do any of that. All it can do is suck up hot dog pics and then spit out a semi-random image that fits within what it detected as the common factors to a hot dog picture.
Because when everyone and their mother can type simple keywords into a "make me a painting generator dot com", it isn't special anymore, so if you want something that stands out, you still need a human who can produce something that doesn't look like an AI shat it out. Sure, it will still be used on cheap auto-generated web sites, and people will recognize it and its cheapness.
There are already AI that can randomly generate faces. That's not going to replace some manga artist from drawing his own character's faces from scratch in his personal style.
Do I look like I know what an AI is? I just want a picture of a god dang hotdog.
I think it's like a JPEG.
10 years ago people didn't recognize photoshop and filters. now they mostly do.
normalization and widespread adoption cause changes in perception.
evidently AI has gotten good enough to fool even art contest judges, though, which certainly complicates the whole deal... the future human painter might just be the guy that picks out the one good piece of art from 200 pieces of AI-spewed randomness, like this guy did for this contest.
You’ve never seen what passes for art in state and local gov shows have you.
When they aren’t fools they are a nepotistic cliche passing awards among themselves.
It’s not replacing actual artists like Bernini, not for a while.