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Pluvious

(5,086 posts)
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 12:56 PM 4 hrs ago

Why no body likes AI Art (A Cartoonist's Review)

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https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

( not for the dopamine starved impatient reader - [grin emoji] )

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Why no body likes AI Art (A Cartoonist's Review) (Original Post) Pluvious 4 hrs ago OP
Love this! Thanks for posting. Ocelot II 4 hrs ago #1
I enjoyed that. Well, most of that. Besides the basic points that it's talentless people who are most highplainsdem 3 hrs ago #2
Interesting. A bit too long but I got the message. question everything 3 hrs ago #3
SF fans have seen plenty of stories about AI/robots working for, against, or in cooperation with humans ... eppur_se_muova 2 hrs ago #4

highplainsdem

(58,497 posts)
2. I enjoyed that. Well, most of that. Besides the basic points that it's talentless people who are most
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 01:48 PM
3 hrs ago

thrilled with AI art, and AI art is soulless, there's the theft of intellectual property behind all generative AI. Which wasn't mentioned at all.

The cartoonist also wrote

I use AI myself. I like using AI (though not AI art).


If any of the AI he likes using is generative AI, and he just objects to the type of AI threatening his work, he's a hypocrite. Just as musicians and writers who don't want music or writing generated by AI to threaten their work, but will happily use AI art to make album and book covers, are hypocrites.

Creatives need to stand together.

And the talentless - skilless - people who want to use AI to pretend they have skills they don't have need to realize they're being frauds.

eppur_se_muova

(40,249 posts)
4. SF fans have seen plenty of stories about AI/robots working for, against, or in cooperation with humans ...
Tue Oct 7, 2025, 02:34 PM
2 hrs ago

some authors assume AI will somehow always be inferior to humans, others that it will greatly exceed it; it seems to be a fair bet that it will always be different from natural intelligence, human or otherwise.

For some reason, this article reminded me of a very darkly satirical (or is it ?) John Sladek story about a robot whose intelligence has developed to the point that he is able to convince voters -- human, of course -- to actually choose him as a candidate for Vice President* -- but he has a dark secret, which pops out to shock everyone, only after he is about to assume the office.

The title ? Tik-Tok.


https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8195513M/Tik_Tok

Hmmmmmmm.







*(Yeah, yeah, I know. Low bar.)

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