• stinky@redlemmy.com
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    7 days ago

    digital artists aren’t real artists because they’re using a computer to create art

    woodworkers aren’t real artists because they’re using a table saw and glue to create art

    poets aren’t real artists because they’re using a dictionary and thesaurus to create art

    chefs aren’t real artists because they’re using an immersion blender and gas range to create art

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      7 days ago

      Your obviously bad faith argument excludes the distinction between tool and automaton.

      All the things you listed are tools. They are objects that assist humans with performing a process.

      “Generative” ai is an automaton. A human gives it an instruction and it performs a process fully independent of human action.

      Hiring someone to draw a picture and then signing your name on it doesn’t make you an artist, and that’s exactly what every ai “”“artist”“” is doing.

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        7 days ago

        All the things you listed are tools … ai is an automaton. A human gives it an instruction and it performs a process fully independent of human action.

        Computers are tools in exactly the same way. A person isn’t moving data from one memory location to another. That’s automated by the processor.

        You could say the same about a table saw: a human isn’t separating sequences of molecules with their hands, it’s automated by a machine.

        AI is not different from the above tools.

        My argument isn’t “bad faith” just because you disagree with it; your lack of understanding is not sufficient to disprove the assertion. Come prepared, or don’t come.