ThunderStone posted at 9:40 AM Tue, 23 August 2022 - #4443198

primorge posted at 8:20 AM Tue, 23 August 2022 - #4443197

Imagine all of the skill, dexterity, and creative choices during each brush stroke that Beksiński had to bring to bear creating that surrealist Piper painting in my examples post.

Now imagine someone, a person that hasn't dedicated themselves to developing such imagination, knowledge, and dexterity, typing in this prompt

Somber Surreal futurist Apocalyptic Skeletal Piper

And producing a comparable result in a manner of minutes.

Is it progress?

No, not really. It's just a lazy person's way of creating imaginative pictures, not real art. IMHO, it takes time and talent to produce real art using whatever media at hand. AI is just a starting point for creative keyboardist. I admit that picture of the piper was extremely good. I like it, but would I be able to create such an image from scratch even on the computer within either DAZ studio or Poser? Probably not. Not even in Paintshop Pro or that other company that I shall not name (PS, grumble, grumble). I had an inkling that this was coming, ever since I took Digital Media Communication course. The world is inching slowly towards complete Virtual and Augmented Reality. Interesting to read about it in a cyberpunk novel.

Well...

One of the hallmarks of Cyberpunk is that it's largely Dystopian.