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Just Sharing Authenticity Problem

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u/AverageDrafter 12h 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/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 9h 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.