Recently saw some debate over a hoodie sold by an artist that went for $500. People were saying that the price was way too high for the hoodie, or that the hoodie looked like it could easily be diy-ed. The artist themselves said that the hoodie was a OOAK art piece that they hand drew on, and that the price was to justify the time spent on the piece, and that he was simply being "paid what he was worth".

Now that the context is done, the whole thing got me thinking about the concept of time = value. Should artworks always be priced based on the amount of effort and labour put into it? Or should there be a standard? Is it a case-by-case scenario?

Btw, here's the link to the video people were arguing under

Not much input from me that hasn't already been said in this topic, I think AI in the art industry can be difficult to discuss sometimes bc of the mix of economic values and human values (Artists should be paid for their work vs should artists create with profit as the goal in the first place?).

I don't doubt that AI will eventually take a hold of the art industry, as it has done in other industries. And considering AI is mainly threatening the business aspect of making art, I think it's a bit futile to push for the innate reward of learning and labouring for a piece from scratch, because we've always known that corporations, and most consumers, don't really care about the journey. In business, the end product is always what's most important. I think the argument that "there's no such thing as bad art" is also pretty useless here, considering consumers and corporations definitely already have a set standard that they expect in the media.

However like what melon said, I don't think the current human practice of making art will be totally wiped out. I definitely think there will be some studios (perhaps mainly indie) who will stand by supporting human artists, and there are already artist communities built on the foundation of supporting creative works. And considering the horrendous backlash people get online from using AI art, I think the transformation will definitely take a lot longer

And I think that's the most business-relevant thing that separates human art and AI art; AI lacks creativity, it just takes preexisting images and merges them together, it can't create anything unique! VS humans being inspired by the things they see and transforming it into something new. I think is AI really did take over the whole industry, we wld see pretty quickly the stagnation of new ideas and concepts, and we'd instead be fed boring media copied from each other that all look the same. I think creativity is the power that we currently have over AI.

TLDR... Do I support AI in the industry? Of course not! While I do believe in the value in making art for yourself (no such thing as bad art, innate rewards blah blah blah) and that the capitalist focus on profit can be pretty stifling to creativity, I'd still rather artists be able to make a living!

PS. I think AI art shldve just stuck at the surreal, incomprehensible but weirdly accurate generations of single prompts like with DALLE, where people just generated random ideas for fun. (personally I think that's what images projected by my brain actually look like )

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Stumbled upon this website last night, 5 minutes before the turn of the hour :omg:k:. Quite the experience! I liked the mechanic of only activating at a certain timing, certainly adds to the "right time, right place" feel of it

Listening to twee pop lately, this is my fav from the Go Sailor album

My desk it rlly decked out w trinkets, n it's practically just a display piece since I only use it for work half the time when my back hurts from working on my bed... but it's a real cozy corner in my room
I mostly take pics w my crappy flip phone nowadays, so if I took anyth other than close-ups it'll be a blurry mess... you might just have to piece it tgt in ur mind w these pics

my toys occupy every corner of my desk, it's basically a hangout spot for them (+ I have nowhere else to display them)

and my whiteboard's filled w postcards I've collected over the years (feel free to ask where I got them, I'll try to respond!)

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btw, cute penguin!

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ty and cheers to the new year!