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That is another good example. Using a text prompt of an AI is like microwaving a premade meal.
But tech bros using AI who can't create anything without the AI aren't artists just like someone who can only microwave premade meals isn't a chef.
Hell, adding some additional cheese or making informed substitutions and maybe a tiny bit of some seasoning is being a chef.
But if you use the AI to create the meal entirely you aren't choosing the noodles, sauce, meat balls, or anything else. You are picking items from a menu at best and hoping for random chance to spit out something you like.
Intentionally applying an AI filter to something intentionally chosen with an expected outcome could be used to create art just like algorithm based filters. But the meme is referring to people who can't actually create anything without an AI text promp.
Using a text prompt of an AI is like looking in a recipe book
If you choose to copy the whole recipe or if you use the book as a guide to create something better or different.
If I had the "World's best spaghetti" recipe and followed it. You'd believe that I was a master chef.
Just like if I used text prompt of an AI and created some art (assuming it doesn't make it goofy). You'd believe that I was a great artist.
Doesn't mean it's true.
Thing that's always boggled my mind is when someone can say they know the piano.
For example. I can play the Fur Elise on piano.
The catch is. I can only do it by memory of what keys to hit and I couldn't read it off the music sheet because I've never seen the sheet music.
I can play another handful of songs with sheet music.
The catch is. I can't read sheet music. I only use the sheet music of the songs I know and associate the notes I know with the keys I need to hit. Give me a new song and I honestly don't know how to tell you even where to begin.
If I sat down in front of you and played 5 songs, you could think that I have been playing piano for a very long time.
I use to play handbells growing up and I would circle my notes in different colors depending on what bell I needed to use. I never connected that B# was in a certain line on the sheet. Just that B# bell notes were circled blue.
So when I play piano "reading" the sheet, I don't circle them in colors anymore, but I just know that in this part of the song, that note means that key.
Instead of picking up a bell and ringing it. I just hit the key.
If someone asked me if I knew how to play any instruments, I wouldn't say handbells or piano though. I'm not a musician.
Would cover bands be artists or musicians? If all they could do was follow the "recipe"? If they add some additional cheese.
You are overthinking the details by taking examples far to literally and applying them too broadly.
I would think the same thing as I would if you used google search and presented some artwork someone else made as your own. Typing a text prompt into an AI generator is the same thing as typing words into a search engine.
Passing off someone else's work as your own might fool someone into thinking you were a great artist, but that doesn't make you an artist.
Cover bands can also play other songs beyond what they choose to for the cover band, because they are musicians. Do you think they are limited to only that one band's songs?