I have written already how mixed (to the least) my feelings are about the use of AI to create these images. They are easily recognizable as the rendering is pretty much always the same, thus failing at being art because of the lack of technique that usually is related to the artist. So no art here, only people who - basically - fill-up the fields of a program that does the rendering. At least when it comes to the sexually fantasized subjects such as the ones below.
The AI often seems to find hard to render hands/fingers. I've seen many pictures that have distorted ones, if not hands with 4 or 6 fingers, which did not seem to bother their author who posted them anyway.
Anyway, everyone is entitled to their tastes, aren't they?
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Good Morning, BatRedneck - Happy New Year and I wanted to say thanks, as you and SickoRicko have made up a great deal of the entertainment and viewing pleasure I have enjoyed over the past several months since starting on Blogger.
The subject of AI as "art" is - as most things - a complicated one. On the one hand, I have viewed many amazing AI generated pictures from the fantasy genre, drawn as animation graphics and incredibly detailed with lighting, shadows and perspectives that really highlight and inspire with their beauty. These examples of AI generated art don't pretend to be anything they aren't - impossible and non-existent subjects such as space stations, aliens, mythological gods and creatures, etc. Things that are outside the realm of man and nature, but allow us to glimpse the impossible and be moved by it.
Then, there is stuff like... well, these images. The insistence on trying to appear "real" while at the same time displaying unattainable standards of beauty and proportion. Sure, you might be able to attain a body like the guy in #24 (last), but never with that equipment or face - or maybe be a doppelganger in appearance to him, but never with that body, and so on. It just smacks of the practice in the 1980's/90's of airbrushing models in magazine advertisements to remove blemishes and perfecting bodies - underhanded and promoting a societal belief that you have to be perfect and proportionate in every way to be considered beautiful and sexually attractive.
[and what is it with gay men's obsession with dicks the size of skyscrapers?!?]
For me, the beauty or sexual attractiveness of a man comes with being real - not just in the sense of real vs. AI, but real as in who and what he really is. Smooth or Hairy, Tall or Short, Fat or Thin, Scars or blemish free, my ideal of beauty is accepting what you have, and being comfortable and confident with it.
Don't get me wrong - I find plenty of men that I am not attracted to - but being real (in the sense above) is what edges out the pretty boys who try to hard with me and makes me gravitate to those that look like they have lived and are proud of it.
Enough soap-box - have a great New Year and I look forward to more of your posts!
RBS
I agree with the above, and the original comment at the beginning of this post. So far, I find it easy to determine if a pic (art or not) is fake because they are too perfect. Some of my "art" is too perfect, also, but it was made that way by me, and if you look closely, you can find many mistakes - areas where I didn't notice a problem.
www.manfulldesign.com is where you can find my work, if you're interested.
Already there are beautiful images. Some are far-fetched and one sees that they are artificial #7, for example). However, I believe that Artificial Intelligence will be improved and the results will be better and better. But, honestly, I prefer Rick's Regulars.
Xersex does bring up a good point - who knows what the future will bring?
After all, the Impressionist Art movement was originated because a new upstart in technology - called modern photography - started the exact same argument on whether photographs were "Works of Art" or not. A group of artists started "pixelating" paint on canvas, believing it would prove their skills while at the same time deceiving the camera lens so that the resulting painting couldn't be photographed.
Familiar argument, anyone?
I think eventually AI will become part of the definition of "art," but it will take several improvements and many years of fighting before it does... but who knows?
RBS
I love it when a simple post/perception brings out different yet converging opinions, and you gentlemen are anything but disappointing.
My current idea - quite basic, actually - is to be taken into this very blog's context: the display of real men's nudity, with the sexualization that goes along. Seen from that point of view the AI interpretation seems to me as crude as the teenager's sketches I used to draw to fuel my fantasies back in the day when I didn't have access to magazines such as Honcho/Torso and the like. Which makes me totally agree with you Xersex and RBS: who knows what the future of AI will bring?
Well we may have the beginning of an answer to that question, only to look at what the movie industry has been providing us with over the past decades. A recent example being "Gemini Man" from 2019 starring both current Will Smith and his much younger counterpart generated though computer FX. The much earlier "Total Recall" (1990) has also been a successful attempt at playing with our visual perception. And it seems to me that in 2017 "Ghost In The Shell" has been the cornerstone of what is now called the use of AI in the entertainment industry.
So yes, I do agree with you all upon the facts:
- AI is a new tool, in its early stage, meaning there is little if not no way to predict how far it'll bring us on the path f creativity;
- it'll become as unescapable as photography in its time and will provide the talented ones new ways to be creative - if not already, thus providing a new branch to the art's tree.
Conclusion: I may have been a bit too quick at reacting to the pictures above, like being stuck behind a tree and not seeing the forest beyond :-)
And I thank you for making me realize that.
P.S.: UtahJock, I very much like your several Academic Nude series. As for your woodwork well... I wish I could afford to order one of your beautiful boxes. Bravo!
To BatRedNeck - Thank you!
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