Will AI Art Help or Hurt Artists?

Imagine creating an entire painting by typing a few sentences. AI tools like Stable Diffusion will forever change how people create art. But will AI help or hurt artists? And what lessons can we learn from history on how this will play out? Here's the breakdown 🧵

The same debates will rage about whether or not prompt based AI imagery can be considered Art, and will just as inevitably be relegated to history once everyone makes use of these tools to better share what is on their mind.

The easier it is to generate artworks, the more challenging it will be to generate distinction and meaning, as it ever was. Great Art, like AI, is very often what hasn’t been explored yet.

AI image generation is essentially a truncated exercise in taste; a product of knowing which inputs and keywords to feed the image-mashup machine, and the eye to identify which outputs contain any semblance of artistry. All that is to say: AI itself can’t generate good taste for you.