Relevant Sarah Andersen comic

Oh yeah this [digital artist] is so good but if I copy the SAME EXACT IMAGE suddenly It's "not as good" and "plagiarized"...

/s

Bob Ross taught you that you could paint if you applied yourself. It wasn't the domain of neurotic weirdos in the throes of creative agony, stabbing canvases in paint-splattered lofts to distract themselves from the super-gonorrhea they picked up from their last model: you could just sit down and paint a thing and enjoy yourself.

AI bros are claiming that they're bringing art to the masses. Bob Ross actually did it.

Also, the way this is framed, it looks like the robot painted it first and then Bob copied it.

In reality, Bob painted it first, the robots scraped the data and used it to copy his work, style, etc., and then all the little Bob Ross's of the world have their original work buried under a pile of slop that ripped them off to begin with.

It is far, far too late for that now—I have already instructed the Managing Director of Art of my Agent Conglomerate to depict you as the seething histrionic carbon-based Agent. You lose.

"I've already generated you as the red-faced angry cuck man, you've already lost" 😤

I don't understand why no one was impressed when I used an e-bike to win a marathon.

Do you mean because AI can't do pottery yet?

I've seen that exact same red angry face on a dozen clanker art pieces in the last month. They really don't understand how badly they're undermining their own point.

Fuck AI. Support real artists. https://youtu.be/JnGDhxFMYTw?is=QrO5s9yvqnM_kZAV

the thing is that ai can easly do it but it takes tallent and effort for a human to do it

Bob Ross’s show is even called The Joy of Painting. It’s about taking joy in the effort put in for the creation of art. He shows that anyone can paint and makes the art accessible to everyone through his simple lessons.

I get the feeling that it's mostly people who haven't got an artistic bone in their body.

You can't explain to them why AI art sucks because they don't understand art.

Now all of a sudden they feel empowered because they too can "make art" and they don't have to overcome that mountain of learning, growing, experience,...

And that pisses them off because deep down they do know it's not the same as the real thing. I still get the feeling that AI keeps producing the same things over and over again. "Cute" pixar knockoffs or a sloppy filter placed on top of some shapes.

I wouldn't even care if it wasn't Rob Ross and was just some rando, I'd have the same reaction.

Everyone’s hating the “clanker slop” while willfully ignoring that most of the internet has been human slop anyway. Have you seen TikTok? Instagram? Facebook? People lost their respect for the art of creation a long time ago; well before AI painted its first six-fingered hand. I’m not excusing it. Just pointing out how it’s the logical next step in the enshitification of everything, not some horrible, unforeseeable pivot in societal values.

This made me realize something too.

Part of the reason why some people defend AI is because they have lost touch with and respect for the process.

When I watch a crafts video on youtube I enjoy watching the process. I enjoy seeing the faults, the struggles, the explanations of what is occurring. I've noticed that a lot of more recent crafts videos(human made) don't do that. Instead of discussing plans, struggles, explaining what's going on the video just shows the result of each step and adds a bunch of memes. I usually click off whenever this happens but it makes me realize that a lot of people have very much so lost touch with the idea of working hard for something and respecting the hard work someone else puts into their creations.

Like everyone is saying it's the process and the humanity, but it's also the style. Clankers just produce the most generic looking art. Seriously how many of these slop memes have you seen where it looks exactly like this?

There's soul to the human touch. Watch Bob Ross right now cog-sucker. The mistakes and imperfections he explicitly calls happy little accidents

It's the process of making art that's what's important and fulfilling, not the end product.

Unless, of course, I don't approve of your process in which case you're a talentless hack.

Pretty much sums up the argument.

If I copied and printed some artist's work and presented it as my own people would also be angry. How you make the art piece matters.

It's simply that simple; the process does matter.

Humans are touched by humans. If I found out a no-soul entity made it I feel betrayed.

Call it double standard. Call it whatever you like.

This is how I am like.

Bite me.