AI (F)Art
One of the advancements of all time!
Well U-Fam, lemme tell you, I’m hot off my 34th B-day and as the festivities died down, I got a little peeved thinking about something. That’s right, my cool and calm demeanor was actually shaken for once as I peered the internet and was visually assaulted by mounds of the heaping filth known as AI art. Now I want to preface this rant with a little note saying that my disdain for AI art does not come from a benevolent place of wanting artists to avoid having their hard work stolen as most internet artists are creating some of the worst imagery known to mankind (take a gander through deviant art if you don’t believe me.) No my hate for AI art comes from a selfish place as I just think that it looks downright hideous.
It seems like wherever you look on the internet you are greeting with the horrible visage of a shoddily generated piece of AI art. Looking for burger recipes - AI burger; how about dog photos - AI dog with 6 legs. It gets on my nerves so bad because not only do I have to suffer through seeing the photos but now there are actually AI videos swarming my feed and I have to watch AI cats go through a brutal divorce scandal to the tune of “What was I made for?” with meow lyrics. Frankly I, and I’m sure you reading this have grown pretty sick and tired of it.
Getting real for a second, I truly do fear a future where actual artists, each with their own charm, are replaced by boring, samey, and cheap looking AI monstrosities. Whats terrifying is that I’ve already seen AI generated coloring books hitting the shelves in person containing what I can only describe as worthless images that aren’t worth the trees sacrificed to make them. These books are most likely going to end up in the cart of an unassuming grandmother buying a book for her grandchild who will no doubt struggle to color in the incomprehensible mess of lines used to generate the abhorrent images strewn across the pages of that book.
Well U-Fam, I’m glad that I was able to get this off my chest and I’m sure you agree with me as I have not met a single person who enjoys seeing AI slop on a day to day basis (if you do, revel in the fact that you have no taste and enjoy that McDonalds fish filet you’re probably shoving down your gullet.) One more thing for the artist of the clocktower specifically, please do not attach an AI art piece to this article as a sick twisted joke on me as it will make me irrationally angry. That is unless you were going to draw me as the thinker defecating again in which case, AI away.
By: Mason Piva