it was kind of a big deal since the author sought to copyright it. Which it was for a time. But apparently not anymore

the ruling was that copyrightable material requires 'human authorship'.

so I was like, ok, so what does this comic even look like? What kinda shit is AI doing that it'll put me out of a job?

so I went looking... and it's fucking hilarious

yeeahhh

it's Zendaya. (apparently she was in the search parameters.. like duh)

closeups only

it's just... dead eyed blank faced expressionless zendaya

freckledknight: hahah yeah, static poses, no hands, not doing fucking anything

no movement, so real interaction with any of the surroundings

like... jesus

if she DID have hands she'd probably have like 9 fingers

i kinda did a side by side with my own shit

on each

also not consistent from panel to panel because AI is very bad at that

and i think this is one of my more boring pages cuz it's just some chatting

talking heads.. but goddamn there's way more storytelling going on here then whatever the fuck this AI comic is doing

honestly their background structures don't even have consistency between styles

and yeah. you have... mutliple people... interacting together...

WOW look at you fancy pants

yeah for me the thing about AI art is like. okay eventually it will probably be able to render hands and be more consistent, but

with your BODY LANGUAGES

god I wish like, the model of AI art that had taken off had been like, the AARON programs and not...this shit. (bc AARON had been designed/programmed by an artist)

and HANDS

real emotions

and ANGLES

FUNDAMENTALLY you are usually making art to tell a story or otherwise communicate something

COMPOSITION

youre an art elite

bean is an ETITIST

... ELITIST

and unless you somehow communicate to the AI exactly the thing you want to communicate including expressions and style and lighting and composition it's not going to be able to produce those things specifically

not because it's not good enough but just because it doesn't know! it's not reading your mind!

and it turns out, the reason art exists, is that it's very hard to just describe all of those things

yeah computer can't fill in the gaps or make creative decisions

yeah, no storytelling, character interaction, just anatomy in egenral, compostion... all the things really

... it's just... it's so dumb

visual art exists because words do not communicate everything so you cannot just use words to communicate to the AI and come up with what you want

dragillionaire: i'm GATEKEEPING ART!

vectorspace: I think a lot of wannabe artists/designers forget the "visual communication" part of the equation

like, the very first AI art program was a series of programs designed by an artist who had an interest in the intersection of AI and art, taught on his own work, and wasn't open-source. it also couldn't be exploited for capitalism, so it fell to dust after the creator died

heavensblessing: yeah, i think that's the thing. Like, the main thing that keeps getting lost is that most artists are mad about the stolen art in datasets

and the obvious attempt at moneygrab with said stolen art

[stares balefully at Tor Books and the SF Ballet]

This looks exactly like the lifeless samey bullshit you'd expect people with no taste would be busy wanking themselves over for having achieved

Oh wow, that comic,

I'm so glad copyright law was not on their side

But also yes, thank goodness they got smacked down