What I think the average person who may not have an eye for art or an attention to details might not understand is, a lot of AI art that comes across as convincing to the untrained eye is still, at the very least, living deep in the uncanny valley.
Much in the same way that an AI voice or video can look somewhat convincing but a little bit off, the same thing is true for AI artwork. People who are artists or who have at least learned to see the nuance in art can often see the weirdness in generative AI “art”, even if it is sometimes hard to explain exactly why it feels off (maybe it’s the subtlety of the lighting, the shape design, the line quality, etc.).
Can you make AI art that is convincing enough to fool an untrained eye? Easily.
Can you make AI art that is convincing enough to feel a trained eye? Sure, but it’s going to be a lot harder.
In the case of these guys, they really aren’t fooling almost anyone with their obvious slop. Frankly, it doesn’t take a well-tuned eye for artistry to see that their artwork looks like every generic AI slop art output that we’ve been barraged with over the last year and change.
What I think the average person who may not have an eye for art or an attention to details might not understand is, a lot of AI art that comes across as convincing to the untrained eye is still, at the very least, living deep in the uncanny valley.
Much in the same way that an AI voice or video can look somewhat convincing but a little bit off, the same thing is true for AI artwork. People who are artists or who have at least learned to see the nuance in art can often see the weirdness in generative AI “art”, even if it is sometimes hard to explain exactly why it feels off (maybe it’s the subtlety of the lighting, the shape design, the line quality, etc.).
Can you make AI art that is convincing enough to fool an untrained eye? Easily.
Can you make AI art that is convincing enough to feel a trained eye? Sure, but it’s going to be a lot harder.
In the case of these guys, they really aren’t fooling almost anyone with their obvious slop. Frankly, it doesn’t take a well-tuned eye for artistry to see that their artwork looks like every generic AI slop art output that we’ve been barraged with over the last year and change.