Mastodon.art just banned AI art

[highplainsdem]

36. There's nothing on that page or the one it links to referring

to "all the famous artists" using assistants to do the work while taking full credit. Those are your words.

Hockney was talking about one artist, Damien Hirst.

The linked article at https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/01/quick-read-damien-hirst-edition.html has this comment, which IMO nails it:

Mr. Hirst's work is kind of like watching commercials. I don't feel the power of who made the piece; his self-admitted lack of interaction with his work leaves me flat. But, when he asks millions for work he may not have even touched himself, in my mind it becomes an issue of professional integrity.

I feel he gives abstract and conceptual artists a bad name, and I am appalled that I cannot look at any work with his name on it without feeling it is cheapened. Fortunately, I can mostly avoid that.

And that article links to this one - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jan/03/david-hockney-damien-hirst-rival-exhibitions - which probably explains why Hirst has others create for him:

When Hirst has picked up his own paintbrush, the results have not been universally admired. An exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London of paintings inspired by Francis Bacon was hammered by the critics, including the Guardian's Adrian Searle, who called his work "amateurish and adolescent". The pieces will not feature in Hirst's Tate show.

My impression is that the people most interested in using ChatGPT to "create" will be people with little or no talent who want to claim to be creative. And perhaps a few who could actually write something decent or create some worthwhile piece of art or music themselves, but don't want to put the time and effort into it, especially if they can con anyone into believing that it's really creative to just give instructions to software, and that the AI isn't unethically using real artists' work.