Louie Mantia, Jr. on Nostr: So if you don’t have the time to learn how to make art, fine. Don’t make art. ...

So if you don’t have the time to learn how to make art, fine. Don’t make art. Don’t pretend to make art. Don’t generate images that sucked up all the art that we all sweat over for our entire lifetimes.

Artists have absorbed so much of the world around them to create what they have. When you use generative AI to make you an image, you’ve decided that the output from artists is yours to take. You’ve outsourced interpretation. You’ve not expanded your imagination, but instead limited it.