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I mean... you just described the process of making films, TV and videogames pretty much exactly, so... yeah?
Did you think George Lucas made all those Tie Fighters in a shed with a bunch of glue and sticks? Spielberg didn't design the look of Indiana Jones. We know who did it. We've seen all the iterations in the concept art. Movie nerds are obsessive like that. Peter Jackson famously had a literal approval stamp for things in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, or so the DVD extras will tell you.
Collaborative art is all over the place, and people in hands-off coordination roles that are merely guiding the work of other artists get credit all the time.
But again, you're missing the point and not reading the post you're responding to. You literally repeat my exact point as if it was a counterpoint. This entire conversation is built on a single preconceived idea and people literally can't see past that, even when the things they're responding to are entirely unrelated to the responses they're giving.
Oh, so it's a nomenclature problem that you have?
I mean, I do get it, because the word "artist" is horrifically confusing in English. In most languages "artist" is just someone that engages in an artistic endeavour of any kind. This is true of English, too, but their default artist is a painter or illustrator, and that is the default "art", so people get weird about it. Fun fact, in Spanish the default "artist" is an actor or a performer instead. Weird, that.
But if that's your problem, that people who use AI are makes-artistic-things-artists and not makes-visual-art-artists I don't think anybody is gonna get particularly belligerent about it. Photographers don't draw pictures, either, and you don't see anybody complaining that they don't get the same word as painters. I don't mind. Call them "AI directors", it's all the same to me. We can be friends. If you're saying that you're A-OK with people crapping out images from prompting all day as long as they don't call themselves "AI artists" you're actually way more lenient than I am about these things.
You're still missing the point that the use of AI to generate specifically images isn't limited to "feed a model a prompt, share whatever comes out", and there are multiple layers of interaction and application from... well, that, to fairly minor automation tools. Putting all of them in the same boat is reductive and I'd argue outright incorrect.
I am, in fact, not a makes-pictures-artist.
I have, in fact, been a makes-artistic-things-artist hiring and collaborating with makes-pictures-artists before, it should be said.
Not with AI, though. I don't typically mess with AI image generators.
I just don't like demagoguery of any kind.
This is unrelated, but since it's (I believe) the first time I've been blocked here this is a good spot to point out that blocking on this platform sucks ass and this person probably doesn't realize that I can still post in response to them in a very visible way and they've barely even muted me from their own client views and notifications.
Fedi really needs a better solution for this, I'm not cool with this being taken as a worthwhile tradeoff for distributed hosting. This is exactly the setup Musk was proposing to use when he threatened to remove blocking from Twitter.
Speaking of nuanced points.
Jesus Christ, dude got dunked so hard he had to block lmao 🤣