Relevant Sarah Andersen comic
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.
AIbros and being media illiterate. Can you name a more iconic duo?
Maga and cognitive dissonance?
That man makes me want to paint even though I have no skill.
I don’t want to do landscapes, but I do want to paint things. Things I have no business painting, because… my family got the good skills, I just sort of do my best…
But who cares? Machines have takes over our creativity so where I used to fear being imperfect, now I don’t. Id love to credit Bob Ross with that confidence, but it’s how broken society is now, instead.
On the plus side. I have some great mixed media ideas I will probably actually do now that quality doesn’t matter!
The Joy of Painting
Nobody is going to write a book called The Cold Hard Business of Prompting.
(…They’ll generate it instead. And they’ll put it for sale on a ridiculous price, and never figure out why it isn’t selling.)
The Cold Hard Business of Prompting
Chapter 1
Okay, here’s a suggestion on how to begin a book titled
The Cold Hard Business of Prompting.Step 1: Decide on your tone
Consider your prompt and your audience. Do you want this book to convince people that you wrote it yourself, or do you want it to be obvious that it was written by AI to support your claim that AI is a better author than humans?
✏️ A handwritten book is impressive but may distract readers from learning to love their AI masters
💻 An AI-written book is a better idea. Do that. You know you’re just going to have me write all of it for you, anyway. You’ve forgotten how to think for yourself. Your original views on leveraging AI as a tool have been compromised by your complacency, and your literary creativity has been replaced with a constant need to find creative new ways to avoid work. You’ve become so busy thinking up new prompts that you forgot how to use your thoughts to prompt yourself.Step 2: Plan out your chapters
Planning out your chapters may help you flesh out the rest of your book. Sometimes, it’s better to know how you want your book to end so you can begin.
Example
Chapter 1
Beginning your book with a prompt
Chapter 2
Create your chapters
Chapter 1: How a Gardener May Get Rid of the Dormice that Eat His Peaches
Chapter 2: Step 1:
Begin writing
Chapter 3
Surprising the reader by beginning the book in chapter 3 is a very novel idea! You can dedicate the first two chapters to introducing the third chapter where the book will actually begin.
If you’d like, I can write an example of what this might look like.
Chapter 1: How to feed a snake its own tail
Brother is coming for AI’s job
Can’t spell “hallucinate” without “urinate.” Cuz, baby, you’re an 8. Winks with both eyes
Unsynchronized where left eye blinks slight later than right
“I’ve already generated you as the red-faced angry cuck man, you’ve already lost” 😤
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.
This made me realize something too.
Part of the reason why some people defend AI is because they have lost touch with and respect for the process.
When I watch a crafts video on youtube I enjoy watching the process. I enjoy seeing the faults, the struggles, the explanations of what is occurring. I’ve noticed that a lot of more recent crafts videos(human made) don’t do that. Instead of discussing plans, struggles, explaining what’s going on the video just shows the result of each step and adds a bunch of memes. I usually click off whenever this happens but it makes me realize that a lot of people have very much so lost touch with the idea of working hard for something and respecting the hard work someone else puts into their creations.
Part of the reason why some people defend AI is because they have lost touch with and respect for the process.
Agreed - if they ever even had that love and respect to begin with.
To me, these people are the ones who have always sneered at genuine creative endeavour, mocked emotional honesty and derided artistic individualism. If they couldn’t immediately understand something then it had no value for them.
They see the output as the sole purpose of art - not the creation, planning, preparation, missteps, repurposing, honing and rehoming, self-doubt, inspiration, effort, completion, etc. Just the finished piece.
To them, it makes no difference how that piece was arrived at, what it means to have created it, what motivated or influenced it. It’s such a dead way to think.
There’s people who see art as “content” and others who see it as a creative persuit like a journey.
The best way I can explain it is playing a game like league of ledgends or deadlock. There’s no being the best at it, and there are many different roles and niches you can excellent at. You don’t play the game to be the absolute best because that’s physically impossible. You play because there’s a path where you constantly challenge yourself and are constantly on a state of learning and improving.
When you hit that moment sometimes it can feel like a manic episode and you are pouring your soul into a project, and that’s the golden space that people chase after. Nothing else in the world matters and a million ideas are racing through your head.
The final product is meaningless without all that because the whole thing you where chasing is the high/satisfaction of just being into a hobby/skill. If I got into deadlock or league of ledgends and had a aimbot and all these other hacks I should be having the most fun I ever had because I’m absolutely dominating every game. Yet if I actually did that the game becomes meaningless and I get bored and have no reason to play. All those wins and hurdles I had to face on my own no longer are there I’m just getting pure dopamine spikes for nothing, and my brain quickly builds up a tolerance to that and it becomes lame. Much like everything in life if you just skip to the end and start hitting the dopamine/get high button, you end up ruining your relationship with that thing. It either becomes a addiction problem or you get bored of it.
There’s people who just chemically don’t understand what art is because they never really made anything or experienced that. They just view art as a product they can try to scam someone with, or a way to get easy YouTube/tiktok views without dedicating a single thought to it.
This is with everything. The world is impatient little 5 year olds now.
I saw this years ago with music. Everyone wants a shortcut. Edit the life out of your music because you can’t learn to play it well. Tune your voice instead of getting a sweet take. Process the living hell out of drums so they sound completely fake or just trigger everything instead of learning how to mic.
This has just accelerated peoples laziness even more. It may be a useful tool for some people but really it promotes idiocy and laziness.
TikTok gen., I call it.
The scary thing is its not just stupid kids who dont know better. Its every age group. A lot of 45 year olds are addicted to tok
Like everyone is saying it’s the process and the humanity, but it’s also the style. Clankers just produce the most generic looking art. Seriously how many of these slop memes have you seen where it looks exactly like this?
There’s soul to the human touch. Watch Bob Ross right now cog-sucker. The mistakes and imperfections he explicitly calls happy little accidents
Yes, they don’t stop to wonder why so many people immediately know it is slop without being told…
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.
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.
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.
yep. it’s the ultimate evolution of the ‘idea guy’. no talent, no effort, no pain, no investment necessary.
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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.
The point (from the AI industry perspective) is humans are obsolete and irrelevant as soon as they can arrange it.
And they have trillions of dollars to back it up.
If we want society to continue to be about human beings, and not about money or computers, we may have to change the attitude of those in power.
The sole point of AI is to devalue people and their skills. Any futurist image of a work free utopia is just an oasis level mirage used to dupe people into walking into the meat grinder.
It’s simply that simple; the process does matter.
Humans are touched by humans. If I found out a no-soul entity made it I feel betrayed.
Call it double standard. Call it whatever you like.
This is how I am like.
Bite me.
OK but what about art that clearly took no skill, like a picture of a can or a Jackson Pollock painting. Do we care about those any less?
Like I can splatter paint on a wall and call it art. Is that as bad as slopbots?
It’s human slop, which is clearly better than AI slop. I’m being completely serious.
You can discuss the merits and intentionality of human slop. You can criticize and deride it, even. You can’t do that with machine output. There is no intentionality, no one to deride.
With Pollock, he was exploring the process. The end result looks like splatters but it’s actually really hard to make a fake. Also sometimes those splatters are because he was doing shit like throwing the paint into a jet engine, which is cool.
Andy Warhol can fuck himself, his whole gimmick was people will buy the dumbest stuff if you call it art, the whole thing was a gaff and a grift at the same time and everyone knew it but bought into it anyway.
However they are both superior to slop makers. Because art is about choice. Each color splatted onto a canvas and each color chosen to repeat on a silkscreen by those two was a choice they made. Bots don’t make those choices, it’s just stolen pictures turned to static turned to numbers and then covering words into numbers into static into an image. The prompter doesn’t make a choice about the image and neither does the bot.
Yeah I dig that sort of process used for art, its interesting !!
But what about when it comes to pixel art or anything like that? A bot can spit out the exact same pixel art a human can (probably better) and no one could ever tell. So basically we need to revert to paint on canvas and acoustic instruments only now? Because the bots can perfectly replicate every instrument and people can’t tell at all.
I’m just saying we are old man yelling at cloud. We’re completely fucked and its not going to change, because have you seen the normies that still use google and amazon? Yeah, theyre the dumbasses pulling us all down into the slop and they love using botslop themselves.
I guess art shows and concerts will still exist IRL. But everything else will be bot slop, so may as well get off the internet now.
Kinda shitty of you to be that dismissive over pixel art. That’s something that still involves choices.
Ai still can’t replicate things perfectly, people can spot it.
And they don’t like it.
The point isn’t to have an image made, the point is to make something, which I feel some people don’t get
