> You can commission a painting from an artist, but it is hubris to point at a painting you bought or commissioned and go "I made that". But somehow it is acceptable to do this for LLMs. That is a baffling mindset to me!
The majority of the work on a lot of famous masterpieces of art was done by apprentices. Under the instruction of a master, but still. No different than someone coming up with a composition, and having AI do a first pass, then going in with photoshop and manually painting over the inadequate parts. Yet people will knob gobble renaissance artists and talk about lynching AI artists.
I've heard this analogy regurgitated multiple times now, and I wish people would not.
It's true that many master artists had workshops with apprenticeships. Because they were a trade.
By the time you were helping to paint portraits, you'd spent maybe a decade learning techniques and skill and doing the unimportant parts and working your way up from there.
It wasn't a half-assed, slop some paint around and let the master come fix it later. The people doing things like portrait work or copies of works were highly skilled and experienced.
Typing "an army of Garfields storming the beach at Normandy" into a website is not the same.
Anti-AI art folks don't care if you photobashed bits of AI composition and then totally painted over it in your own hand, the fact that AI was involved makes it dirty, evil, nasty, sinful and bad. Full stop. Anti-AI writing agents don't care if every word in a manuscript was human written, if you asked AI a question while writing it suddenly you're darth fucking vader.
The correct comparison for some jackass who just prompts something, then runs around calling it art is to a pre-schooler that scribbles blobs of indistinct color on a page, then calls it art. Compare apples to apples.
That's not what a strawman is lol. Me saying the analogy sucks is just criticism.
If you feel judged about using AI, then your choices are (1) don't use it or (2) don't tell people you use it or (3) stop caring what other people think.
Have the courage of your own convictions and own your own actions.
The majority of the work on a lot of famous masterpieces of art was done by apprentices. Under the instruction of a master, but still. No different than someone coming up with a composition, and having AI do a first pass, then going in with photoshop and manually painting over the inadequate parts. Yet people will knob gobble renaissance artists and talk about lynching AI artists.