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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A viewer has no role in determining if it's art. Art is solely determined by an artist intending to make art.

A viewer decides if they like it, decides if they appreciate it and decides what messages they take from it... But they don't decide if it's art. Art is what an artist makes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

by your logic I declare everything I create with stable diffusion to be art :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Correct!

I find a 5 year old's doodles more interesting and higher quality than anything you're making with SD but it's still art.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything you create? When I win the jackpot on a slot machine I didn't create the money

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

By that logic, no art is ever art because no one "created" anything except maybe god, or something?

If I used a tool to make the pixels light up in a new way, how is that different from Pollock flicking a brush to get the drops the way he wanted? His method is just as stochastic and randomly generated as mine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a viewer can decide something is art unintentionally by evaluating it as art. If you need an artist to intend, then I guess the viewer is that artist because they are the one who made it art.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People can decide non-artistic things are aesthetically pleasing and apply the label of art to them but without a creator you can't have art.

But if it's a good a human designed - that designer had artistic intentions.