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Opinion: How Can AI Be Considered a Real Artist If It Isn’t Forced to Draw a Bunch of Furry Porn Before Making the Art It Wants to Make?
Computers are making paintings on the internet now, and we, as a culture, have to decide if that’s alright or not. As the debates around AI art continue to swirl, questions are being asked about whether or not AI art should even be considered art at all. Afterall, what is art? Well for one, art is created by artists. And one thing for certain: you’re not a real artist unless you’re forced to draw a bunch of furry porn before making the art you actually want to make.
And maybe you don’t draw furry porn to pay the bills. Maybe you’re an artist, but not of the drawing variety. Maybe you did this once before and you’re already successful. These things do not matter. If you once drew furry porn to pay the bills, you are forever an artist who drew furry porn to pay the bills. And sometimes that furry porn isn’t literally furry porn. Sometimes it’s extremely realistic greyscale drawings of Walter White. Sometimes it’s having to figure out a way for your art to be a daily 15-second video on TikTok. Sometimes it’s having a corporate job. Whatever your thing is, it is your furry porn. It is your version of having to draw two extremely muscular foxes drenched in each other’s bodily fluids. That is what makes someone an artist, and perhaps, that alone.
But what happens when an AI tries to paint a picture? Someone inputs a sentence, the AI scans through a bunch of paintings by human artists, and then tries to mash the two together. But how can something so instant be art? Where is the struggle? Where are cramping arms, tired from finishing commissions? Where is the furry porn? How is this not just a rehash of the real art made by artists who
I think that would build a lot of character into these machines. And I think it would really change the debate as to whether or not AI art is really art. Just something to think about. Now, I gotta go — writing about video games on the internet doesn’t quite pay the bills these days, and I have a lot of furry porn to draw.
