Soupy on Nostr: I do not fuck with gen AI. I can recognize exceptions in the event a reasonable one ...

I do not fuck with gen AI. I can recognize exceptions in the event a reasonable one were presented to me, but, "AI art" does not exist.

Art is about self-expression. The internet has fully rotted the general perception of art, but even, "bad" art is beautiful. Self-expression is beautiful in all forms. Generative AI is not a form of self expression, but a machine bastardizing the self-expression of artists just to pump out amalgamized slop vaguely resembling the works it was trained on.

I will respect a stick figure every single day, even with the least straight lines drawn on a crumpled wet piece of paper, but I will never, ever, EVER, respect a machine's interpolation of a prompt built on plagiarism.

I don't just dislike gen AI, I loathe it in all forms.