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Had a local artist corner me at a coffee shop over my AI portraits
I was sitting at a cafe in Austin last month, showing a friend some AI portraits I made for fun. This woman at the next table, a painter I guess, leaned over and said I was stealing from real artists. She was loud enough that everyone looked. I told her I spent 30 hours training the model on my own photos and tweaking prompts. She said that's not creativity, it's just math with extra steps. I get her point, but I also think she ignored the work I put into getting the results I wanted. Isn't there some middle ground between calling it theft and saying it's pure art? Has anyone else had a face-to-face argument like this that changed how you see it?
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allen.iris1mo ago
Math with extra steps" is a pretty funny line, not gonna lie. But she cornered you at a coffee shop over this? That's a lot of heat for something that's not hurting anyone. Seems like everyone needs to take a breath and let the tech sort itself out without turning it into a personal moral crusade.
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