Well, good counterpoint on the vegetarianism (and I guess that might also make the hamburger metaphor even harder, though it was already just a side tangent), I suppose, but I still wonder if your point (I mostly agree with) that copyright laws are overextended would change if you actually owned any copyrights.
On the art winning AIs:
he created 900 iterations of what led to his final three images. He cleaned up those three images in Photoshop, such as by giving one of the female figures in his winning image a head with wavy, dark hair after Midjourney had rendered her headless.
First of all, this is my "curation" argument; if it takes 900 times to do something, you've still put a lot of time developing something (and even then, it is not entirely AI created; he had to modify it to make it not suck).
almost certainly without knowing it was AI art because it’s not like these things are labeled “AI art” and most non-artists wouldn’t be able to tell. Artists or people familiar with hallmarks of AI art can spot the difference, however.
Second winner ... huh. I mean, I'll call it a draw, at worst. Like, if untrained idiots are running the contest, of course they are going to make untrained idiot choices.
The third contest winner would be the strongest, but your source is, well, The Sun, and The Sun's only quoted sources come from the creators of the picture, not the judges in the contest or other experts. But, anyway, this is what he has to say about himself:
I’ve won photography awards. I’ve won awards in filmmaking and things like that.
In other words, he's still put in a lot of time and effort; he just didn't shit out "creativity" one day and get an award. The two awards judged by actual experts went to artists who put a lot of effort into their art, and the one who didn't won a contest by some video game PR guys who were barely paying attention.
As for critiques of modern art, well, you described Impressionism as a "style" that was copied by other artists, and not a specific artistic movements made by a group of artists with an express goal and purpose that was both a response to and rejection of previous artistic movements and is technically the original "Modern Art." The point I am making is that bad art in traditional mediums does not excuse bad art in new mediums; rather the opposite. The purpose of art is not to look like art. It is to be art. And even your contest winners don't seem to have much to say besides "gotcha!"
Whether you reject or accept my pseudo-Marxist reading of Lowd's take, it's still baffling to me that "this is going to make creativity easy!" is a take. It's just going to be this, all over again.
Well, good counterpoint on the vegetarianism (and I guess that might also make the hamburger metaphor even harder, though it was already just a side tangent), I suppose, but I still wonder if your point (I mostly agree with) that copyright laws are overextended would change if you actually owned any copyrights.
On the art winning AIs:
First of all, this is my "curation" argument; if it takes 900 times to do something, you've still put a lot of time developing something (and even then, it is not entirely AI created; he had to modify it to make it not suck).
Second winner ... huh. I mean, I'll call it a draw, at worst. Like, if untrained idiots are running the contest, of course they are going to make untrained idiot choices.
The third contest winner would be the strongest, but your source is, well, The Sun, and The Sun's only quoted sources come from the creators of the picture, not the judges in the contest or other experts. But, anyway, this is what he has to say about himself:
In other words, he's still put in a lot of time and effort; he just didn't shit out "creativity" one day and get an award. The two awards judged by actual experts went to artists who put a lot of effort into their art, and the one who didn't won a contest by some video game PR guys who were barely paying attention.
As for critiques of modern art, well, you described Impressionism as a "style" that was copied by other artists, and not a specific artistic movements made by a group of artists with an express goal and purpose that was both a response to and rejection of previous artistic movements and is technically the original "Modern Art." The point I am making is that bad art in traditional mediums does not excuse bad art in new mediums; rather the opposite. The purpose of art is not to look like art. It is to be art. And even your contest winners don't seem to have much to say besides "gotcha!"
Whether you reject or accept my pseudo-Marxist reading of Lowd's take, it's still baffling to me that "this is going to make creativity easy!" is a take. It's just going to be this, all over again.