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Also, while I disagree about your point on the audience part — if that is your belief, the article and my or anyone else’s opinion should be absolutely irrelevant for artists. They feel compulsion, the do their AI art. Why does it matter if it finds its audience or sells? Make art, put your soul into it, put your LLM’s soul into it if you believe it has it, make it for all the interesting and cool things. Show it to humans, show it to bots, don’t show it and keep it on your hard drive — the audience doesn’t matter if AI/you made something interesting and artistic. So what if someone wants a “human-made” sticker on whatever drawing, an artist’s goal is to make art, no? Not get anyone’s approval. Why does someone’s “snobbery” matter in this regard at all?

You assume that humans exchange information only consciously. Someone can feel a compulsion to capture the beauty of something, and someone can still read it as “wow, so this is what beauty can be like”. Or they can read something else, human comms are imperfect and that’s part of it.

What do you see in AI art that you love or find interesting so much?

Sure. If the gripe is that it’s difficult to make money off of AI art, well, it’s difficult to make money off of any art, especially if someone is working with unusual materials and tools. The market will decide if there is demand for it, but the market in general has historically been an extremely poor mechanism for matching artists with the audience who can see and appreciate their art. Art makes a poor product. The starving artist stereotype exists for a reason.

P.s. Pop art actually directly talked about this relationship with the market and it’s interesting because of that, not only because the colors and shapes were fun to look at (but that too).

It doesn’t. Art isn’t ‘supposed’ to be easy or hard, it is also not ‘supposed’ to be economically viable or non-viable. Creating art was all of these things (hard, easy, profitable etc) in different places and different times. Art is still very hard because art is an expression of a human finding something true about the world they want to pass on. The tools don’t matter. Public recognition, largely, also doesn’t matter for good art (as long as it speaks to someone.) AI tools are easy but public recognition is hard to obtain. Both of these things have nothing to do with the quality of art.

If an artist has something to say with AI, they can just say it, no one is going to imprison them. Artists did that throughout the entire history (sometime even with the threat of being jailed), nothing changed in this regard with AI.

Art is hard not because of the tools but because you have to have something worthwhile to say (most people don’t) and you have to figure out a way how to get another human to listen, and also you have to hope that someone some day will listen because what you’re saying is true, even if it doesn’t sell today or ever.

It’s not snobbery. Art is just another way for humans to talk with each other, if AI does all the talking, people are largely not interested.

>saying "some art is interesting to me, and some isn't".

That applies to every single human being, including you, except maybe for art scholars.

Losing implies that there was something to lose to begin with. AI as a tool for art is new and there hasn’t been an artist who has managed to do something with it to break the internia.

Art is not ‘supposed’ to be easy to do, if one believes that they see something important they can express via AI — they are free to do so and try to say smth to the world, AI tools are relatively accessible. It’s not guaranteed that the world will listen now, but that has always been the case — many great artists never got recognition during their lifetimes including those who worked in novel paradigms.

So no, they’re not losing anything. If the absence of the immediate mass approval of their art is the obstacle, well, then they don’t need to make that art.