A New Medium Struggling to Be Born
How AI Artists Are Using New Tools to Push the Boundaries of Creativity
From Imitation to Innovation
Have you ever felt the frustration of wrestling with an AI? You are trying to coax it into creating the image in your mind. You painstakingly craft the perfect prompt, only to be met with a result that's... well, not quite right.
It's close, but the composition is off, the style is wrong, and the details just aren't there. It's like playing a game of telephone with a machine. The machine doesn't quite understand your language.
"The Content of a Medium is Always Another Medium" Marshall McLuhan
This, my friends, is what it means to be an early adopter of generative AI art. We are pioneers in a new frontier, exploring a medium that is still in its infancy.
Like a child learning to speak, generative AI is mimicking the forms and styles of its predecessors: photography, painting, graphic design. It's stuck in the "imitation phase," and it's driving us crazy.
New Tools Offer Artists More Control Over AI's Creative Potential
But there's hope. A glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. New tools and approaches are emerging that give us, the artists, more control over the AI. We're no longer at the mercy of its whims. We can guide it, shape it, and mold it to our will.