These absolute dimwits clearly never watched Bob Ross.

The point of Bob Ross’s entire career was You Can Do This.

The point of AI is You Can’t Do This.

Art (in the broad sense) is communication. I don’t mean that in the sense of delivering a moral, though of course it can do that too. It hit me recently that that’s why I hate AI generated content, even if it’s indistinguishable from the real thing. There’s no other person at the other end of that communication, no intention to provoke a particular feeling, impart a lesson, or engage with a good story.

People call it parroting but I think that’s an insult to parrots. Sure a parrot isn’t inquiring about your day when he says “How ya doing?” But he is trying to socialize with you by calling out to you like he would another flock member.

I’d argue that Bob Ross’s art wasn’t the point at all. At least for me, it was listening to what he said and how he said it that was the point of the show.
Ross said things that weren’t even FOR me that I needed to hear- that people in my life didn’t.

Except if Bob is actually painting it, he’ll explain color choices or brush choices in order to get you to try painting. AI just vomits something, and if you asked it about color choices, it’d only share a comment from another painter.

The AI is not conscious nor aware. And if it is, then we may have imprisoned souls and it should be dismantled asap before we get judged.

I know this is tiny and barely relevant detail but… the legs of that easel make no fucking sense

It’s the same images in both panels, so it seems justified to call the hypothetical plagiarism machine’s theft of hypothetical Bob Ross’s hypothetical art, slop. Considering Bob Ross has been dead for 30 years, and how absurd the supposed shade being thrown at anti-ai’ers is… you almost have to expect this is parody meant to mock ai bros and not an actual argument being made.

Yeah. There’s no way any of those bot-fucking clowns will ever understand this. The see the slop they have their AI/LLM/OpenGPT make for them as their fast-track ticket to Pretendville, where they can stand beside skilled musicians, artists, poets… and loudly claim:

“I am one of you!”

… while being entirely unaware that all of them, and most everyone they know think they are a colossal joke.

And the fact that they seem to think that simply punching adjectives into a prompt is the exact same thing as spending all of your life up to this point in time- just to learn a craft, is all the proof you need that what I just said is 100% factual.

They’re fucking idiots. They don’t know better.

Relevant Sarah Andersen comic

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Bob Ross taught you that you could paint if you applied yourself. It wasn’t the domain of neurotic weirdos in the throes of creative agony, stabbing canvases in paint-splattered lofts to distract themselves from the super-gonorrhea they picked up from their last model: you could just sit down and paint a thing and enjoy yourself.

AI bros are claiming that they’re bringing art to the masses. Bob Ross actually did it.

Bob Ross’s show is even called The Joy of Painting. It’s about taking joy in the effort put in for the creation of art. He shows that anyone can paint and makes the art accessible to everyone through his simple lessons.

A large part of art - and I would argue, the majority of it - is the sapient being behind the art who understands the art they are creating.

Doesn’t matter if it is a painting, a novel, or a sculpture, the art is a product of the artist.

And when a non-sapient and even non-sentient machine makes said “art”, it isn’t art any more than if a salamander accidentally dropped from a tree onto the freshly-loaded palette, and then crawled over the canvas.

“I’ve already generated you as the red-faced angry cuck man, you’ve already lost” 😤

AI art isn’t competent, anyone with moderate education in art can see this, there’s a lot of copying, and not good understanding, it’s not like a collage, it’s more like a remix but the elements don’t marry or contrast properly, it’s big failure is that it can’t do what humans do, in writing it’s said ‘writing is rewriting’ and writers talk about the first draft being the most important step and the least important version of the work. because you can’t edit nothing, and the first draft only exists to be torn apart and edited to death. This is similar to visual art. but we don’t talk in drafts but in passes. you do a pass for line, for color, for composition, for lighting, for balance, for proportions, not in a strict order or anything, and many artists even untrained artists go through these passes without consciously knowing that’s what they’re doing in every case, but it’s similar to writing, the creative process is about changing a work until it is complete, and that requires a lot of time and thought and intent, AI only takes finished images and remixes them. which is why if you ask it to ape cubism or optical art or any of the forms of art that deconstruct elements of art it can’t do it. it takes the image of those finished pieces and it slaps them on a object your requesting. you want a cubist keytar painting in hot pink? your going to get an image of a realistic keytar with cubist finished artwork painted on top of it, not a cubist painting of a keytar, because deconstruction and intent of that level requires human intellect and understanding of elements, and remixing can’t get you there at all. this isn’t magic, anyone could figure out how to make original art in a cubist style or optional style or dada ist or surrealist if they spent a little time studying art elements and the said styles, it just requires understanding that realism isn’t the point of art, and that elements like line, tone, and color can be separated and made to describe the visible world in a way the visible world doesn’t exist as, but AI can’t grasp elements or deconstruction, or how to make a finished piece of art from base elements, it only sees a finished work and copies the appearance.

This is missing the part about “happy trees,” and how you can paint whatever you want in your world. He fucked around and it looked great. I can’t do that.