#Would you consider this art "AI Generated"?

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past night
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Hi!

I'm curious on the community's thoughts on this. Here's a picture of an AI image I generated using Gemini, and a bunch of pixel art I've done using it as a base.

There's no AI in the process between the zombie and the characters - just hand-pixelling in Aseprite, so would you consider the characters at the bottom "AI-generated"? I've been a pixel artist since I was a kid way before AI gen became a thing, and the conversations around it remind me a lot of old art forum topics like "photobashing" and "kitbashing" and whether they count as art, and thought it would be an interesting topic to bring up here.

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slate crypt
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if you couldnt find any other similar images than i guess it is alright.

trail cosmos
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I mean it is still kinda tracing

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The thing you're tracing being ai can put a bad taste in people's mouths too

past night
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Would you consider something AI generated if someone was looking at an AI image for reference, but not tracing over it?

trail cosmos
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If you're like using it as a direct reference and you're copying the pose and composition and coloring but you change the character I wouldn't consider the thing you drew "ai" but I'd give you a lot less merit

past night
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Yeah that's fair

trail cosmos
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Like if you did that with an artwork drawn by a human

past night
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I mean it's p much same as with taking regular reference in that regard

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copying all elements from one image is p lame

trail cosmos
past night
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what's that quote about stealing from many lol

trail cosmos
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Yeah I think I know what you're talking about

past night
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I kinda got two phrases mixed up

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"The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal."
"Copy one author and it's plagiarism, copy many and it's research"

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paraphrasing slightly

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I feel like it's hard for this convo to avoid a Ship of Theseus style breakdown, but it's interesting to see where different people draw the line

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like

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Is it "AI Generated Art" if you get a write a shader in hlsl?", then

  • What if the code itself is generated by an AI?
  • What if the code wasn't completely generated by AI, but some parts were?
  • What if the author didn't prompt AI, but some for loops were auto-completed by LLM tooling in Visual Studio?
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etc. etc.

trail cosmos
trail cosmos
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But I personally have kinda lost interest in that a little bit when it comes to ai

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I just see it as a merit thing

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Even if someone only uses ai and their things seem derivative and generic I could still call them an artist

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Just not one to whom id give a lot of merit

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The more ai use = less merit

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Since you're putting less time in the ideas and the execution if you're just promoting

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You can use ai but have a very clever use or a really good idea then you kinda balance out the merit

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It does kinda end up being subjective anyway but that's just how I think of it now

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Like I suppose you using an air generated base does make your thing a little ai generated but Idk if id call it ai generated

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Ive heard ai assisted float around

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I think that's fitting

past night
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V similar to if people trace over someone else's work or something

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Or take a photograph of something pretty instead of drawing it (still art in framing it etc. but you wouldn't get credit for the brush strokes of the leaves or whatever lol)