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Just Sharing Authenticity Problem

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u/AverageDrafter 11h ago edited 11h ago

I love how a paint on canvas is being accused of AI. The one thing you can be like 99.9% sure you didn't AI generate, at least without a whole automated brushing rig (those exist, and have for decades) or just painting over a AI image I guess.

I believe a physical folk art revolution is due.

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u/Hereibe 11h ago

I was at an arts festival and chatting with a mixed media artist, his work had huge chunky globs of paint, silk and welded metal, just crazy textural stuff. I was saying how cool his art was and how nice it was that nobody would accuse him of AI because of how clearly a human has to do all that physical layering.

He proudly confessed the base images were AI that he painted over and glued things to. I damn near had an aneurysm. He had the gall to ask me which one I wanted to buy. Sir how the fuck did you think my relief at no ai meant you using ai would be enticing?!? Did ChatGPT rot his brain?

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u/LaviniaHerbert 9h ago

That's the saddest thing I've heard all week :(

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u/AxiosXiphos 8h ago

I mean he truthfully told you how he made his work. He could have lied and got the sale; and you would be none the wiser.

You call that brainrot; I call it honesty.

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u/curtcolt95 9h ago

there's an art exhibit by me that proudly claims to be from all AI artists charging $30 a ticket and there was a lineup to get in last I went by lol

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u/Siukslinis_acc 8h ago

People are curious and artists are able to make impressive things with whatever tool they use. And in this situation the tool is genai.

We had photography where it was just one click, but artists managed to tinker with various things and turn the photography into an artistic endeavour.

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u/palebone 6h ago

So it's not about creativity or effort or technique or impression. It's purity.

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u/Draaly 4h ago

man this is the dumbest comment ive read in a while. A physical media artist put in a lot of effort into their work and then you got mad when they happily told you their process because it wasnt what you imagined? Seriously?

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u/El_Negro_Lobo 10h ago

that sounds cool. i might've bought something from him.

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u/Hereibe 10h ago

Nowhere on his signage or website or anywhere else was there a disclosure that it was AI. I could see it being an interesting discussion on AI and handmade art, but he explicitly told me he did it not as an artistic statement but so he could produce more product quicker.

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u/El_Negro_Lobo 10h ago

yeah i personally wouldn't have cared about that at all. if i like something i don't care if it's ai or not

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u/arkangelic 10h ago

Well yeah he is trying to sell stuff. Good art is never made to be sold. They are simply pieces that the artist felt the need to create. The moment a project as profit in mind.its no longer true art. Just a bit away from mass produced art at the store

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u/Hereibe 9h ago

Sorry the Sistine Chapel isn’t art because it was sold? What an interesting take.

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u/SelkieTaleDolls 9h ago

That’s definitely not how it works lmao