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๐ โโ๏ธ I don't usually share my thoughts on social media, but after my last post went viral with over ๐ญ๐ฏ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป views, I find it necessary to do so.
๐ฃ First of all, let me clarify that I have no interest in wasting time with users who disrespect me without having the slightest idea of who I am or what I do. However, I understand that the reason this happens is the fear caused by the incredible quality that AI Art is achieving these days.
๐น This is not the first nor the last time this kind of public lynching will happen to an AI artist, but I would like to put some thoughts on the table regarding this matter. If they are useful to someone, fantastic; if not, I will continue my path calmly without deviating an inch from the focus of my artistic goals.
Letโs start! ๐ป
๐ธ In 1827, Joseph Nicรฉphore Niรฉpce managed to create the ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐ฝ๐ต๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ต. This marked the beginning of years of concerns & protests from many painters who made a living painting portraits of people of that era. Suddenly, many of them saw their profession seriously threatened, as photography was much cheaper & faster than painting & was also very fashionable.
๐จ What seemed like a curse for painters, today we can say with certainty, was the best thing that happened to painting, as it freed painters from the responsibility of realistically representing reality, since photography took care of that. Thanks to the invention of photography, pictorial movements such as impressionism, cubism, & surrealism were born, where artists, free from painting reality, painted what they would like to see, what they imagined, or even what they dreamed. It should also be noted that those painters who wanted to continue representing reality were able to use photography as a tool to keep doing so, taking the photograph as a reference.
๐ญ๐ฅ Continuing with historical parallels of the current moment, Iโd like to mention the ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐, a movement led by English artisans in the 19th century who protested between 1811 & 1816 against the new machines that destroyed their craft. Industrial looms & spinning machines introduced during the Industrial Revolution threatened to replace artisans with less skilled workers who earned lower wages, leaving them without jobs.
๐ Today, the term Luddite has developed a second meaning. A ๐๐๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฒ describes those who oppose or are slow to adopt or incorporate into their lifestyle industrialization, automation, computerization, or new tech in general.
โ๏ธ Leaving aside these theoretical considerations, Iโd like to make it very clear that I am passionate about drawing, & it is a discipline I have been practicing for over 15 years, being my main profession. So, to all of you on X handing out pencils with the classic "๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ฝ ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ถ๐น," I appreciate the advice, but I will also tell you that I have never stopped picking it up. However, I do so when I feel like it and not when any random stranger orders me to.
๐ค Iโm currently focused on creating AI collections because I find it an incredible technology that I tried for my art as early as in 2015 & have been heavily practicing for several years now. To all of you who criticize it without bothering to really understand how the algorithms behind it work, I tell you that ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐๐๐ฎ๐, & it is each person's responsibility & decision how to live with it: with hate, fear, curiosity, or excitement.
๐โโฌโค๏ธโ๐ฅ Finally, Iโd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to reinterpret the ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฟ๐น ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ & shared in the comments & RTs. It has been a pleasant surprise to see so many quality works with different styles & approaches. In the end, I am left with the idea that an AI work has triggered a truly vibrant illustration movement. This makes me think that ๐ถ๐น๐น๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ no matter how much AI advances, just as painting did not die when photography was born.