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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
Scrolling through this channel it’s disappointing to see the overwhelming majority of images are of women—scantily clad, or idealized. Given a magical machine that can make any picture at all, are beautiful, slim, young (usually white or Asian) women all that we can imagine? As an artist, have you ever asked yourself: why am I placing a conventionally pretty, young woman in this image? Why not a man? Or an old woman? Or two teenaged boys? Or a dog? If you’re sexually oriented towards women, are you making art or expressing your sexual fantasies? If you’re a woman, is she meant to be you? If so, do you look anything like her? Or do you wish you did? Is that why you put her there? I’m not going to lecture about “the male gaze.” Either you know about it already or you can look it up. But I hope people will think and look at little more critically at what people who call themselves AI artists—including themselves—are making.
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flintpope 🗣️
@flintpope
I agree. Most AI art that gets shared on the various platforms is by male sexual fantasists, or would-be architects, would-be SF writers or would-be comic-book artists. I am well aware the male gaze is a problem in art and has been since the Ancient Greeks. And moving on... I use AI myself. I get Chat GPT to write P5.js code to create generative abstracts that I then paste into the Processing site. After a lot of patient tweaking (some of it by hand in the code) I get something that works and then produce as many iterations as I can use before it goes stale on me. Then I overlay these images and distort the colours and so on then flood the timelines with the pictures. I of course attach one below! I think AI can be a tool as much as a Nikon or Photoshop but it is too good at producing the sort of glossy crap that used to only be found on the top shelf of newsagents in the 80s. Plus the obvious surreal nonsense! Sorry if I am borderline ranting.
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Vanessa Williams
@fridgebuzz.eth
I agree AI is a tool like any other. And a lot of pure AI work—including those pieces featuring women—really is good art, because the artists had a good reason for making the images they did. If only more people would reflect on what they’re making and why. Thanks for engaging in the discussion!
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