Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal::The new Pika 1.0 tool comes after a $55 million funding round for the generative AI company and is a big step up in AI video production.

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    10 months ago

    What artists do you know that make money off their art?

    this is such a bad take, I present to you, society. and the hundreds of thousands if not millions, tens or hundreds of millions of employed (either self or through businesses) artists.

    and using the “starving artist” as a goal we should transition to just really sucks in concept. I’m not sure you would say the same if it was your profession.

    I know reddit lemmy is full of techbros but geez have some compassion for other people. Oh wooweey i can type words and not have to have someone else do an art, I’m an artist now, everyone else can starve

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      10 months ago

      I’m not sure you would say the same if it was your profession.

      I am an artist, who uses AI to assist me…

      I know reddit lemmy is full of techbros but geez have some compassion for other people.

      So because I don’t see AI as a big scary monster coming to devour our souls I’m a Tech Bro and don’t have compassion?

      But yeah, fear AI all you want, but artists will always be needed even if the bleep Boop machine can do it faster.

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          10 months ago

          Well not in the sense of the word you’re using, but there is an art to getting them to do what you want if your doing more than just dumb shit like I post on this account.

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            There is some technical skill involved in making it output something in the direction you want, but nothing exists until you hit enter, only a vague concept. The process is so detached from the artistic decision making that it is a complete outstrech to call it art. You can never have a personal style doing AI stuff. No vision, no nuances.

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              There is some technical skill involved in pointing the camera in the direction you want, but nothing exists until you hit the shutter, only a vague concept. The process is so detached from the artistic decision making that it is a complete outstrech to call it art. You can never have a personal style doing photography. No vision, no nuances.

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                Yes. Photography captures an instant of the real world. The photographer still has to choose the moment, perspective, composition, filters and so on, but they are very constrained (not as much as AI prompters).

                The debate about the artistic involvement of photography has existed sonce the invention of the camera, it’s not something new.

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                  The debate about the artistic involvement of photography has existed sonce the invention of the camera, it’s not something new.

                  That’s exactly my point, when the camera was first invented people decried it for killing art, now most people consider photography to be an art. You’re doing exactly the same with generative AI.

      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Do you mean that you were an artist who made art before AI image generation existed and you’ve incorporated it into your art, or do you mean you’re an artist because you type out what you want for the AI? Because people just paying artists to make something for them are also artists if that’s what you mean.

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        10 months ago

        I am also an artist, and I frankly think you are a shite artist if you need to steal other peoples work.