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c/ai-art-debatedrewr15drewr151mo agoProlific Poster

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.iris
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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aaron740
aaron7401mo ago
Fair enough, I used to roll my eyes at criticism like that until it happened to me.
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hugos46
hugos461mo agoMost Upvoted
Jumping in to say @allen.iris is spot on about that coffee shop drama being extra. What nobody talks about is how training those models on your own photos is basically the same vibe as an artist building a reference library from life drawing sessions, just way faster.
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