Franco Di Pietro

I don’t speak French, so I didn’t understand a shit of what he’s saying. But if he’s trying to defend AI with that stupid “that’s what traditional artists said when digital art came in” argument, I’ll say it again, the debate in the 1990s was about the medium. You still needed real knowledge of anatomy, color theory, lighting, and composition to create a well-executed piece. It was still a craft, and traditional painters continued to be appreciated as a rare art form. What do you need now to make a “good” graphic? Just type a basic prompt in natural language and generate another soulless lookalike image. And that leads to the next point. Now that execution takes minutes instead of days, you’d think we would have much more time to focus on the creative process. But that’s not what happened. What happened is that we started producing much more while spending less time on ideas, because who cares? And what makes a visual special when we’re all using the same tools and writing the same prompts? We’ve reached a point where a visual has almost lost its value. We’re all just feeding those capitalist monsters.