As many of you readers know, DeviantArt is a website I joined, which initially was a place where artists showed off their creations. I was hoping to get artwork for the covers of my stories.
Recently, though, the members of DA have got on the AI Art bandwagon wholesale; in fact DA have created their own piece of AI art software, free for anyone to use. (I think.) I think it's fair to say that almost 80% of the art put up on DA now is AI generated. (AI - generated = created by software, according to explicit instructions. The instructions are called 'programming', and the programmer is regarded as the Artist.)
Honestly, the parameters of the image can be set almost any way the artist likes: any color of hair, any color of eyes, any build, any costume, any lighting ... it must sound as though I've actually tried this, but I haven't. I know a little computer programming, and the way these AI programs would go is easy to guess.
In conventional art, what we—or art critics—appreciate and admire in a work of art are a lot more than simply the choice of hair color and eye color and costume, and so on.
On top of all that, the programmer—or, anyway, the one who is using the AI art software—can supply a base image, from which the AI takes features that are wanted in the finished image. So if the finished image looks like Taylor Swift, or Emma Watson, or Emilia Clarke, it's not really an accident.
I would expect that the number of people uploading this sort of artwork is rising, but the number of people admiring the artwork is probably plummeting.
Kay
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