SEELE-01 wrote:This evening, the part of Rei Ayanami will be played by Dakota Fanning.
Joke aside, these are crazy good.
Lots of conflicted feelings on AI art.
I understand the issues with generating art from AI but still, these are some pretty great art pieces from Angel. There is a sort of contradiction in that robots are emotionless and technical rather than creative and expressive, and it's just bizarre that we are at a time in our lives when AI has progressed to the level of producing art. On the other hand, it could be argued that creativity in itself is just a set of random computations and judgements the artist acts on algorithmically based on their experience and subjective aesthetics so it should be easily replicated. Art hopefully can progress with technology so that the artist still retains their creative skills without an overreliance on technology, and technology continues to develop so that we get great art.
The art Angel has put up is pretty photorealistic and I doubt any artist can create without countless hours and advanced technology, or even a cosplayer spending hours trying to look like a Dakota Fanning version of Rei Ayanami. It just makes me think how much AI is going to affect fan art in the coming years, which undoubtedly is going to blur the lines between reality and fiction even further than previously. There is definitely going to be a progressive influx of creative anime pieces on Reddit, Tumblr and social media that have some AI elements that are really going to floor us in how realistic and original it looks so that we don't even know how it was even created.
"Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible but not everything is constructive." - 1 Corinthians 10:23