Raw LLM Responses

Something I feel like people don’t understand about art is that art is about the journey and craftsmanship just as much as it is about the destination. Let’s say you’re playing a game for the first time, say Cuphead, and you see the clean rubber hose animation. You don’t think to yourself “Man, this animation is very good,” you think “Man, this animation is very good, the *artists* must have put a lot of time and effort into making it this, and a lot more time and effort honing their skills to be able to make this in the first place.” Obviously that’s an exaggeration, people aren’t saying this word for word but you get the point. Half of the reason people make art is so they can improve their skills so they can better express their ideas and experiences. AI just kinda ignores that part entirely, you go from an input straight to the output and the quality of the output is only as good as the quality of the dataset. When you see an image knowing that it was made by AI, you just think “hey this looks nice.” That’s it, it looks nice, and you already know that the reason it looks nice is because a machine made it, zero real effort was involved in making it. This is what people mean when they say AI art is soulless, it removes the part that gives art its value, its humanity. And by cutting out the part that makes art human, you are cutting out the part that makes art art. AI cannot improve, it cannot iterate, it cannot think, it cannot feel, so why should anything it creates be compared to the creations of those who can? Say what you want about me, but if you cannot value art outside of “well i just think it looks nice :)” then you don’t understand art. It’s the person investing the time and effort into making the art in the first place that makes it art, not the person who wants someone or in this case something to make it for them.