Hegar

Plenty of artists don’t make their art in that way. Most of the grand masters of the past had underlings who did most of the painting, and since Duchamp found objects have been considered valid art.

Cave art artist are definitely real artists, for sure.

As I said I don’t see any need to police who counts as an artist.

As a digital artist his brush is a stylus pen, but he can put that down and use a whittled burnt charcoal pencil, because they’re both largely brush-like objects. A prompt-wrangler can’t go into their backyard and whip up a midjourney-like object to use in the same way.

But I don’t think complexity of tools makes a real artist.

If the argument is that digital artists have learnt the skill of drawing and therefore count as real artists, well some percentage of prompt-wranglers can draw, and some percentage of conceptual, ‘outsider’ and other artists can’t draw.

Almost all professionally trained artists can draw, but I hope we can agree that professionally trained doesn’t = real artist either.

I think “plagiarists aren’t real artists” is a much sounder argument than this, but mostly I don’t think there’s much sense in policing who or what is a real artist. Even about stuff I don’t like.

I’m sure there are plenty of people who can both draw and type in prompts, just like there are plenty of people who can both draw and use Photoshop.

If you take away an artist’s brushes, they can’t make art without making new brushes.

All this example shows is that brushes are easier to make yourself than a LLM is.

I don’t like AI art, but I don’t think this particular argument proves anything meaningful.

Destroying the US’s relationships with key allies is the reason putin put him in charge.

Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. I’m appalling at moving from one task to another.

It’s worth remembering that chiropractors are not doctors, there’s no science behind it and it’s founder was an anti-vax, magnet-healing grifter who said he received the knowledge of chiropractics from the ghost of a dead doctor.

It’s just called bread.

BREAD DOESN’T NEED TO BE SWEET. Please. Especially not cheese toast.

When I briefly lived in China one of the first things expats would ask is if you’ve tried KFC yet. I don’t eat meat but almost every Westerner I met raved about how much better fast food is in china.

I used to get fast food fries occasionally in Australia, then stopped when I moved to the US cause the quality was much worse. I started again Taiwan.

Dead spiders also make excellent “necrobots” because their leg joints are pneumatic so very easy to control mechanically.

We could live in a world where bird drones have eight-fingered hands made from spider corpses.

The corner! Why didn’t I think of that?

Comments online aren’t important enough to be worth deleting.

The superior American digestion maybe, but I think the value of the American constitution is all too clear these days.

I’m not sure the nation that birthed forth the quesarito upon the world was really saved from anything.

It was always so satisfying to get it off in one single strip