The fact that you can whittle a paintbrush in the wilderness but cant build an LLM in the wilderness really doesn’t mean anything.
A zine-maker can’t make paper and a photocopier in the wilderness but they’re still an artist. A digital artist can’t code photoshop in the woods, but they’re still an artist. And some percentage of prompt fondlers could still draw in the wilderness but that doesn’t make their ai art real art.
This is just a bad argument because the complexity of your tools is not what defines an artist.
The meme is referring to tech bros who equate text prompts to creating visual art. The person who put art on a rock is a digital artist showing that actual digital artists can still create art even without their digital tools.
For example, someone who does 3d modeling but never sculpted could could make something decent out of clay on the first try because they understand proportion.
Tech bro prompt engineers would not be able to apply their text prompts to other contexts.
Tech bro prompt engineers would not be able to apply their text prompts to other contexts.
Disagree. Prompt engineers can go find a human artist in the wild and use their text prompts in the same way to generate a piece of art. No need for any fancy tech.
You missed the point. It says directly in the screenshot that the artist is a digital artist. The entire point is that an artist is not tied to a medium.
I think the argument is that artists will create art even with limited tools regardless.
I’m an artist that works on computers all day doing things like Photoshop touch-ups. But to use those tools, I started out by scribbling on anything and everything with whatever I had available all my life. Doing so let me understand the the finer details as well as how to achieve certain looks. I carried those skills into my digital work.
If I don’t have a computer, I still create art even if I have not used the medium before. I might not pick up a paintbrush and become Caravaggio, but what I will do is draw on my experience to make something a tad better than someone who has never made anything themselves.
This person probably never drew on a rock with charred sticks. But they probably used a pencil on paper and those skills are similar.
But then everyone is an artist, like what makes yoy an artist and not me an artist? Oh you pay your rent by creating art? Then you’re a “professional” artist.
The fact that you can whittle a paintbrush in the wilderness but cant build an LLM in the wilderness really doesn’t mean anything.
A zine-maker can’t make paper and a photocopier in the wilderness but they’re still an artist. A digital artist can’t code photoshop in the woods, but they’re still an artist. And some percentage of prompt fondlers could still draw in the wilderness but that doesn’t make their ai art real art.
This is just a bad argument because the complexity of your tools is not what defines an artist.
The meme is referring to tech bros who equate text prompts to creating visual art. The person who put art on a rock is a digital artist showing that actual digital artists can still create art even without their digital tools.
For example, someone who does 3d modeling but never sculpted could could make something decent out of clay on the first try because they understand proportion.
Tech bro prompt engineers would not be able to apply their text prompts to other contexts.
Disagree. Prompt engineers can go find a human artist in the wild and use their text prompts in the same way to generate a piece of art. No need for any fancy tech.
You missed the point. It says directly in the screenshot that the artist is a digital artist. The entire point is that an artist is not tied to a medium.
I think the argument is that artists will create art even with limited tools regardless.
I’m an artist that works on computers all day doing things like Photoshop touch-ups. But to use those tools, I started out by scribbling on anything and everything with whatever I had available all my life. Doing so let me understand the the finer details as well as how to achieve certain looks. I carried those skills into my digital work.
If I don’t have a computer, I still create art even if I have not used the medium before. I might not pick up a paintbrush and become Caravaggio, but what I will do is draw on my experience to make something a tad better than someone who has never made anything themselves.
This person probably never drew on a rock with charred sticks. But they probably used a pencil on paper and those skills are similar.
But then everyone is an artist, like what makes yoy an artist and not me an artist? Oh you pay your rent by creating art? Then you’re a “professional” artist.
What makes an artist an artist is a question that will be debated for a long time.
But someone jamming a prompt into a LLM does not make them an artist.