Complains about racism. "West Europeans have a superiority complex". So you actually aren't against stereotypes? Or are stereotypes okay as long as they don't target you?
That's absolutely disgusting.
Reminds me of these subreddits where men come together to discuss countries based on how traditional the women are + how desperate (so easier to get a wife) + how beneficial it would be to have a passport in that country. They talked about the women as if they were dog breeds.
You do realise that the models stole the art from people all over the world, yes? It's not like someone in Indonesia drawing fan art can simply profit off their own work the way people like you now can.
I also think this attitude ("just get a job to support your hobby while I get to profit of your work") shows an overall lack of respect for artists.
"Soul" is the word we use for something we don't scientifically understand yet. Unless you did discover how human brains work, in that case I congratulate you on your Nobel prize.
You can abstract a complex concept so much it becomes wrong. And abstracting how the brain works to "it's a probability machine" definitely is a wrong description. Especially when you want to use it as an argument of similarity to other probability machines.
Photography did "compete" with paintings, or rather, it killed off a very common job for artists which was portraits, landscapes and, to an extent, still lifes.
It sparked a whole revolution of (ultra) realistic painting by giving favour to art forms that weren't able to be recreated by photography. For example expressionism became much more liked.
People often mention Photography or Photoshop even as comparable to the current situation. But I think it's not comparable at all.
As you can see from the discussions AI changes how (some) people think about what art is. But not in the way of "let's do art differently" but more like "Artists aren't really doing anything different than what AI does".
I also think it's a different situation because AI attacks artists of many different genres all at ones. You can't just slightly move a different style or art form because AI targets practically everything. With 3D printing etc. not even sculpting is safe.
As an artist you draw with an understanding of the human body, though. An understanding current models don't have because they aren't actually intelligent.
Maybe when a human is an absolute beginner in drawing they will think about the different lines and replicate even how other people draw stuff that then looks like a hand.
But eventually they will realise (hopefully, otherwise they may get frustrated and stop drawing) that you need to understand the hand to draw one. It's mass, it's concept or the idea of what a hand is.
This may sound very abstract and strange but creative expression is more complex than replicating what we have seen a million times. It's a complex function unique to the human brain, an organ we don't even scientifically understand yet.
In general I agree with you, but AI doesn't learn the concept of what a circle is. AI reproduces the most fitting representation of what we call a circle. But there is no understanding of the concept of a circle. This may sound nit picking, but I think it's important to make the distinction.
That is why current models aren't regarded as actual intelligence, although people already call them that...
I think the difference in artistic expression between modern humans and humans in the past comes down to the material available (like the actual material to draw with).
Humans can draw without seeing any image ever. Blind people can create art and draw things because we have a different understanding of the world around us than AI has. No human artist needs to look at a thousand or even at 1 picture of a banana to draw one.
The way AI sees and "understands" the world and how it generates an image is fundamentally different from how the human brain conveys the object banana into an image of a banana.
I think there is a much easier explanation. People keep rabbits and guinea pigs as pets. They are much more of a "prey animal" than a wild hog, for example.
Humans simply find rabbits, dogs and cats more aesthetically pleasing / cute. That's the whole secret to it. Some animals are liked by humans and get a bare minimum of compassion and some don't. And that's the biggest factor in our decision of which animals deserve to rot away in their own filth until slaughtered and which can enter our homes as "entertainers".
People pirate and then wonder why small developer studios for example go broke or software becomes more expensive or less plenty. It's so dumb it hurts.
We do not know if the person was bullied or just had an extreme sense of entitlement or some other type of personality disorder which made them believe everyone who didn't treat them a specific way was bullying them.
To understand this you have to know that at the time when "Jaws" came into cinema there were people leaving cinema during the film because they "couldn't handle it". There were even newspaper articles about how the movie allegedly traumatized people. The same goes for movies like "The Shining".
When "The Exorcist" came out people were not prepared.
Ignoring the context, this image is quite hot. I hope there were no actual Nazis involved.