＞ I'd absolutely use AI to enhance my work. That doesn't make it any less meaningful.
I would disagree with this when it comes to many creative works. Things like gallery showings are there as much to sell art as they are to sell the connection with the artist. There's a lot more that goes into the experience of a creative product than just the product itself.
Plenty of musicians have created music using randomised generators since forever. Using AI doesn't have to make the art less meaningful, it depends on what you do with said output.
Plenty of "low effort" art gets valued at arguably ridiculous prices, purely due to the name of the artist. Is suspending buckets of paint on a pendulum to let physics do the work worth more than providing an AI with a prompt?
In the end, the value of a piece of work is in the eye of the beholder.
It is the same stupid arguments from 50 years ago that the electric guitar is just noise.
These people that are so offended by AI art and music I suspect are the type of people who would NEVER go to an art gallery anyway. They don't even know what you are referring to with buckets of paint.
AI Art is just a topic to be pissed off about and generate sentences about online to them.
Yes, but the English Language isn't sold back to me at a premium. Also, it wasn't developed by a private company, its evolved over time through the effort of many generations of people.
Human learning is not the same thing as building a for-profit computer model. And making this comparison is part of my problem with the industry.
I remember an old segment of a news show (It may have been 60 Minutes, I used to watch that, a lot), in the 1980s, that featured a New York "artist." He was a fairly "cliché"-looking chap (Two-tone punk hairdo, whacky sunglasses, obnoxious dress, etc.), and he was quite smug that he didn't paint any of the work attributed to him.
He hired minimum-wage people to do the work, and he spent all his time, schmoozing and going to parties, where he would evangelize it.
Apparently, he did quite well.
As an artist, myself[0], that had struggled to sell anything, I found it rather offensive.
I would disagree with this when it comes to many creative works. Things like gallery showings are there as much to sell art as they are to sell the connection with the artist. There's a lot more that goes into the experience of a creative product than just the product itself.