• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    i think this is more a problem with the digital art. AI hasnt sprung arms nor a wallet to go out and buy the crazy expensive art supplies yet required to put blobs on the canvas.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Give it a few years, and some very hateful AI bro will build a CNC machine that prints JPEGs using oil paint.

      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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        2 hours ago

        This really wouldn’t be that hard to do, CNC machines are essentially step motors on rails holding a tool head. Old (pre-them just being big inkjets) plotters were basically a 2 axis CNC with a tool head that would retrieve, move, lower, raise and replace specially designed pens. My high school had one, a pretty large format one. So you could already pretty trivially have AI gen sketches drawn with actual pens on actual paper if you go find an old plotter, and a CNC painting machine would be about 80% the same thing.

        The harder part by far would be building software to convert a JPEG into instructions to paint with and have it look good.

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        13 minutes ago

        You can write or draw stuff with a fountain pen with an AxiDraw, and that’s an off-the-shelf system. I imagine that it could paint as well.

        EDIT: Apparently the Inkscape plugin used to drive it was originally designed to drive a plotter that did watercolor painting.

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        8 hours ago

        ok go ahead and outrage on a whatif then. suit yourself. meanwhile the digital world is the thing that is burning right now.

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      12 hours ago

      There are people getting paid to train AI with their manual skills right now.

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        10 hours ago

        And of course they’re exploited workers in “third world” countries where poverty may be life-threatening (not talking about the US this time), so nobody can realistically fight back.

        Capitalism is a bitch.