AI Generated Art

[rjsterry]

I'm all for technology, I live and breath it, but just lately the explosion in AI generated art has got me in a bad mood.

You can now, using a few simple words and a program like https://midjourney.com/ to type in words such as "cycle, towpath, misty, morning, uk, city, river" and it produces this ....

And if you think this is crap (my first attempt)

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Then check out this using the words "Volvo, C70, hot rod"

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Why am I mad about this fantastic technology - One of my offspring is studying Illustration, and AI looks set to kill off the industry!

Hey ho

Couldn't agree more. My main objection is that fundamentally, art should have some element of communication between the artist and the viewer, and AI generated imagery has none. It's just the aggregation of an unknown number of other images, matched to a text prompt.