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Okay, I'm willing to accept that we generally shouldn't decide that our personal lines in the sand can serve as meaningful differentiators between art and not-art. By the same token, don't expect me to be particularly impressed by a (mostly) photorealistic composition just because you spent 30 minutes fine-tuning your prompt. If I'm not appreciating your skill and the time you committed to your vision, the bar for the impact you need to make is that much higher. For me, most AI art falls flat on that front as well.
Maybe someone will be the breakthrough artist that shows the rest of us luddites what a genuinely beautiful interplay between drafting a prompt and massaging an engine will look like, but (1) even that person is something other than a painter or a photographer, and (2) I don't think we're there yet and may never be.
That is at least reasonable. I really don't expect you to be impressed by anybody's efforts in AI prompting. Calling it not-art is subjectively wrong, but not being impressed is right in most cases.
Not-art is subjectively right. AI "art" is made by taking imagery and reassembling it according to an algorithm. There's no thought, no imagination, no anything creative behind it. Can it be aesthetically pleasing? Sure, like a sunset can be. But neither are art because there's no intention behind it.
Most art, hell, most human achievements, are generally just combining things in no way that people thought of before.
Yes, but with intent.
The one thing even the most simple ui for promoting requires is some modicum of intent