What does 'democratise art' even mean? It's not like everyone votes for a specific generated AI image.

Anyway, I think what you mean is Socialism, in terms of AI making 'skills' available for everyone.

But it's not. It's stealing your capability to learn and taking it for itself without paying you for your efforts. Every input you use trains the model. Even though you're not creating art, you're still creating a prompt and you should be paid for your labour.

It's already been said by the operators of this massive scam. They can only operate via theft.

AI produces what I had imagined

nope. AI is producing what AI imagined. It is not some kind of magic brain reading machine and never will be. I'd rather see palsy-drawn shaky line stick figures than midjourney six finger abominations any day.

By choosing the path of least resistance you're cheating your own creativity and robbing the world of yet another human voice.

And training the machines to take other artists jobs.

Cute.

democratise art?

that's the most stupid thing I've heard.

everyone can do art, grab a pencil and a paper, or clay, or a stick and a knife, or....

Doing art is practically free. you cant have anything more democratised than art.

AI is simply not art, it is inherently unable to do anything creative and only makes cheap soulless slop.

If it's used as a fancy brush, an artist can do amazing stuff with it, but the creativity and art still comes from the artist, not AI itself.

Or you could pick up a pencil and put it to paper, actually expressing what's in your soul through your own efforts. I know which one I'd prefer to look at.

Also, saying AI "Democratizes art" ignores several million years of people making art with whatever was on hand, whether that be 3D modeling software, or charcoal on a cave wall. Art has always been Democratic and Free; AI, notably, isn't.

No it is not. Because at some point it is paywalled. That's not democraticed. That is blitzscaled.

Or at least a crappy version of it, for the low price more pollution and unemployment.

Beethoven composed music while deaf and you are complaining about not having steady hands. If you really want to make art, just start doing it. It really is that simple.

When I had a good idea for art I wanted for personal use I went to fiverr and paid someone to do it for me. AI is killing the already meager income streams of starving artists.

You misspelled plagiarism. Ai learned from stealing.

And as for art:

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Actually , you know what? I’m not going to touch this. I’d rather watch you fail than help you learn via criticism. So You go head and call whatever you think you’re doing ‘art’ all you want.

No other real artist touch this one either. Save the criticism and lessons for real artists. Let this one fail on their own.