Saturn Machine Part 3 Removed Tangent : A.I. and ART, a Tool not a Replacement For Creativity

 Back to the subject of moving too fast into new technologies possibly wrecking ourselves, I spent the last few days experimenting and feeding art and written ideas in one of the newer A.I. art interpretation app concepts I’ve been watching grow up very fast and also I’m using them but I had to think about the ethics for a while before I dove into my own creations.

This magick of the modern infowars, now totally doable with just a phone or a half asleep laptop, allows you to write any prompt or upload any of your own images, and it’s so vivid and so good at delivering prompts one would never think would make astonishing art but you can type like

“Sinead O Conner surrounded by underwater snake women on the Moon with tiny birthday kitties taking the place of planets and stars in the space behind Sinead O in the tradition of Alex Maleev + movie poster + aqua and lavender color prompts.”

So you can fearlessly type detailed really specific prompts cause the app doesn’t just apply a readymade filter of any kind but rather scans every image google tells it relate to a given term, one at a time then combined, then simply adding as if a filter, those last bits between the plus sign, such as it’ll combine those ideas, then paint it like a gritty Alex Maleev page, then stylize the composition into a popping movie poster THEN paint the whole thing in traces and sprays of aqua borders in the foreground and a lavender background of star kitties.

It winds up producing art so legit, so sharp and so detailed, and human creation not computer vomit spaz looking.

You can see this thing at work and quickly go “oh fuck, as an artist, it’s all over, an eight year old can paint the depths of my soul if I sat in quiet and arranged cut out parts of other paintings of mine and glued them onto the whole original painting while geometric parameters reverberate from each corner assuring the eye that it is viewing both a cave and a face in the same Dali-like illusion ya didn’t even think of when you went to create in the first place but that you now accept as the best idea altogether.

So as an artist trying to be honest with other artist about this experience, it’s so easy to fear a great artistic revolution born on the back of less stable concepts like NFT and gaming for Crypto, here comes “Now everyone you know can draw better than you, and more paint like Da Vinci and video game rendering all thought out and stylized and longing with depth and atmosphere mixed in one. Your frens are gonna have trouble telling you, 1) you’ve never painted before…ya know…like that before like Da Vinci
2) Dude, there’s no way YOU drew this.

But pay no mind, you know how you draw. I did find a much deeper purpose for this technology tho. While I dug a little deeper to find a relationship with the tech I was comfortable with, maybe we should all rethink the way we engage with all technology in general. But for my own purposes when creating I think it may be wack to simply "cheat" and only make art this way, but in the long run I think the service provides a great way to imagine the ideas you have already. Then it seems fair to create from the sketch or model the A.I. comes up with. In other words don't try to pass NFT art or A.I. art as the best art, but rather it's a collaborator in fleshing out your ideas, then you can take that as a plan to create something else entirely blending the A.I.'s interpretation as inspiration for a finalized work, painting, or sketch, animation, etc... I just wanted to tackle one aspect of the changing technology we are using and attempt to figure if it's the future of art, a new artistic tool, or something evil and I feel I've found a good balance this way.