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encapsulated said:

It's mimicry based on an algorithm and search terms. A human wouldn't produce it because we create art from our thoughts, observations, emotions and skill. This is just a program mashing together pixels based on images that have been correlated to certain words and terms.

A literal toddler can do what AI cannot. You can sit them down with some crayons and they can start drawing shapes, without any need of millions of images worth of "data" in their heads. Because human beings are creative. These are just... programs.

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Does the human being instructing the AI to generate something play no roll in the creative process? Are the header images for this or this story not "art" because they used stable diffusion? Would they be art if instead of using stable diffusion they were generated by cutting and pasting existing photos or pictures? If someone prompts an AI to generate something is that significantly different from someone else taking a stock photo (or other existing pictures) and running it through one or more filters in Photoshop to generate something new? If you're using one of Adobe's "neural filters" does that make it not art but if you don't it is? Where's the line for your art gatekeeping?