TimurGafarov

Greetings. From the early days of Web 2.0, photo blogs and online galleries were an important part of visual artist's creative life. Services like Instagram have always been a great source of inspiration, a place to find new audiences and meet fellow artists. But now this is no longer the case. A few days ago I've searched some cyberpunk-styled 3D art for a game environment design inspiration. But it turned out that 99% of the IG search results are now AI-generated content. Disgustingly banal, unoriginal, completely synthetic and lifeless. It is not possible to filter it out and show only genuine art made by real artists, because it is nearly impossible to do that algorithmically. Mandatory "Generated with AI" disclaimers are all well and good, but they are meaningless when AI slop outnumbers original works by hundreds of times. And the Internet companies are seemingly not interested in tightening restrictions because they don't care what kind of content generates revenue for

Social media have recently been flooded with AI-generated content. Sometimes it is very easy to recognize, and sometimes you have to scrutinize the details, almost at the pixel level. Of course, not everyone cares about this, but I, like many others, am principled in this matter. I just don’t like to feel deceived. As a viewer, I am interested in someone else’s imagination, as an artist - someone else’s technique and skill. But how can something that was not created by human be interesting in the artistic sense? Of course, there are many beautiful things in the world that appeared without human participation. Sunsets, flowers, seascapes and all nature in general are beautiful. But this begins to relate to art only as a result of creative reflection. A machine cannot perceive the world through the prism of aesthetic awareness. All that AI does is iteratively improve random information, noise, until it meets some formal criteria of “plausibility”. You can splash paint on a canvas, and