alt Hacker NewsI’m curious to understand why you think drawing photorealistic eyes is different from a person beating a Guitar Hero time record.
Both are pushing boundaries in mechanical dexterity. Yet one is considered art and another is not.
I’m curious to understand why you think drawing photorealistic eyes is different from a person beating a Guitar Hero time record.
Both are pushing boundaries in mechanical dexterity. Yet one is considered art and another is not.
If I was feeling unfair I would say there is no difference! However, if a friend drew me an eye on A3 paper would I frame it? Probably yes...
Others have said this better, but art is an qualitative/emotional thing, not a simply measurable quantity of an object. We tend to use the effort put in as a proxy measure for quality, but when photocopiers and 3D printers and - yes - genAI get involved, that becomes harder or impossible.
Beating Guitar Hero is emotional, but not artistic. Photorealistic drawings could be emotional, and may or may not be artistic. Putting a text prompt into a generative model to make a (frankly terrible) music video for $100 is ... something else.