AI Art, have you tried it.

[CandideO]

Hiya, I've been seeing some very beautiful AI art recently on Instagram and thinking of buying some as a framed print. Has anyone bought any AI art prints? What was your experience in terms of quality, delivery, and overall satisfaction? Are there any particular artists or websites you would recommend? Thanks!"

I have no idea if AI art can be good. But the examples the OP has shared with us are all, without exception, bloody awful.

Which pieces did you end up buying op? Would you mind telling me how much you paid?

@Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies I respect your opinion on them, personally I like them.

@5byfive Hiya, I've seen an abstract piece I like for around £170 (A0 size/33" x 46" inches).

So you haven’t bought anything?

I’m not criticising, like you I’ve seen lots of ai art though I’m less impressed than you. I just don’t know anyone who has paid money for it.

I know plenty who have paid for graphic art and I’ve even paid for nfts so I’m probably the target audience but it leaves me cold .

Let us know if you do buy something.

@5byfive I've bought them as digital downloads and going to buy my first physical piece as a framed giclee print. Yes, agree there's a lot out there which I'm not impressed with either but same for all art in general I guess. Yes, will let you know once I do, where do you normally find AI Art and NFTs?

I don’t go looking for it, I just see it on social media. I’ve had a play on midjourney despite being a very poor traditional artist.

I got in nfts early when you could make a profit. I’ve no interest in them now.

I'm loving that there is now a program to "poison" AI if it scrapes from your original image.

I've had my jewellery designs copied which is annoying enough but I feel for the human artists whose work is stolen. There is no "soul" in AI pictures.

God those pictures are awful, like those crap badly-manufactured prints you get from tacky 'homey bargainous' type shops.

I'd rather frame something my DC drew at school. At least that's unique and a bit of fun, not the product of the botBorg.

Common sense?

AI isn't art in the sense most people take 'art' to mean. But if you like the images go ahead - after all there's a person creating that AI.
The quality of the actual print is down to the manufacture of it, not the origins of it.

I've used it to generate some ideas for minecraft builds where I want a combination of styles that just doesn't exist irl. I'd not buy (knowingly) or sell art produced by AI generated from prompts/existing databases, although I would consider computer produced art where actual programming has created the image as that isn't using anyone else's work.

@Keepingcosy Alas, all we would probably have today is 'Cave Paintings' if innovation wasn't allowed and we left it to those who claim to know best to decide what 'common sense' is...

@mondaytosunday In complete agreement about manufacturing and quality of the final prints.

@MavisRowntree Great to get your thoughts and yes, I too would rather display my DC's drawings than crap badly manufactured prints.

AI is stealing artist's work and using that.

It's not creative.

Here's a picture that AI created when given the brief "Mother Theresa Fighting Poverty"

Proof that AI cannot replace human thinking or creativity

@LadyPoison Genuine question, what to you gives a picture/artwork 'soul'? I ask because from my research AI Art has won art competitions judged by professional art critics and sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

You're not getting it OP.

AI has no consciousness and therefore cannot create art.

It is LITERALLY stealing other artists' work online and amalgamating it into something.

Literally.

Like visual plagiarism. See?

@StMarieforme Yes, I agree, the picture you posted is not good. Not just in terms of the quality but also the built in, very human biases, baked into it. I too would have no interest in AI Art if this is the entirety of it. Compare it to the AI image I found below. You might still not like it but I think we can both agree in the difference in quality.

as well as their work being scraped
This is the biggest sticking point for me. Artists have not been paid or even agreed for their artwork to be used, no matter how much an algorithm fucks around with it. As a "photographer" how would you feel if someone stole your work, photoshopped something else into itt, changed the colour and posted it as their own? Only a flaming idiot would be ok with that.

@StMarieforme

Here are some relevant quotes about artists drawing inspiration from other artists:

"There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope." - Mark Twain
"Good artists copy, great artists steal." - Often attributed to Pablo Picasso
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." - T.S. Eliot
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"Art is theft." - Paul Gauguin
"Originality is nothing but judicious imitation." - Voltaire
"All creative work builds on what came before." - Austin Kleon

I am not going to argue with the esteemed artists above.

Really? Do you think any of those above people would've endorsed AI?

@CandideO did you ask AI to gather those quotes by any chance?

Those artists were not referring to AI. they were referring to human made art.

It's interesting people saying AI art isn't art. I'm sure it will have been said many times over the centuries as the world changed, photography seems a good example perhaps? AI is merely a tool, like a pencil or paintbrush or a camera. Just because you have access to a pencil, doesn't mean you will be an award winning artist, I view AI in the same way. Generative AI requires skill, prompt engineering still requires creativity and thought. I'm sure we will see some great artwork via AI (and a lot of dross!) but the creator will be the prompt engineer, not the computer programme.