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AJ Jefferies
@moonjam.com

The more I debate awful, awful AI bros, the more I've come to appreciate that intent really is the core difference between consuming and creating.

Julia Gfrörer@thorazos.bsky.social

This is something that people without illustration experience tend not to see: every single thing in an image was put there with intention, nothing can be incidental. A writer says "the car," but an illustrator says exactly what model, inside and out, from every angle, and it's not optional.

slowtiger
@slowtiger.bsky.social

Had that discussion this week and to explain "what's art?" I tried to explain the basic artistic act of selection - what's to include, what's to omit - but they didn't even know Marcel Duchamp and his Readymades.

AJ Jefferies
@moonjam.com

I recently tried to explain why a small child's drawing of a pig will always be 1'000'000'000% better than a generated AI image of a pig. And it basically boils down to "the kid *wants* to draw a pig!"

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ayebrows
@ayebrows.bsky.social

ive been making a similar argument since 2022 Your kid's drawing of a pig is purely and exclusively your kid's understanding and experience of what a "pig" is, unique to them. Anyone else would draw it differently based on their own experience, but she drew this and that's the entire point of it all