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Another social experiment regarding AI art: A Twitter user posts a real Monet painting and says it's AI. The results are about what you'd expect. A few people say they can't tell the difference, but a lot of people arrogantly claim the "AI-generated" image is complete trash. Lots of very confident-sounding nonsense about "composition", color theory, brushstrokes, random little details about the plants, etc. Reddit discussions are here and here. The response afterwards seems to mostly center around a motte-and-bailey that pretends nobody made any claims about how AI does on the formal qualities of artwork, but that human art is still vastly better due to vague notions of "artistic intent".
The Left's antipathy towards AI art is well-known by this point. I did a small experiment to see if the Right was as susceptible and can report that at least some users are. It seems like the Right is split with some users being open to AI art on pragmatic grounds, some liking it simply due to the Left hating it, and some are just as opposed as the Left and let it cloud their judgement. I posted some modded AI artwork for Slay the Spire 2 on /v/ and had a decent chunk of users saying the usual "ugh this looks terrible". Then I started including official card art from the game for comparison while still implying it was all AI-generated, and the response got even worse. The card art for Abrasive, Squash, and Secret Technique attracted particular scorn. Again, this is human-made art that revealed preferences show nobody really has a problem with, yet the responses they got when people thought they were AI included the following:
To latch on to this with another recent minor CW-related kerfuffle, I've seen some speculate that this segment from the climax of recently-released video game Mixtape (note that the game footage is real and unedited; the only addition is the guy reacting to it on the left side) was based off an AI-generated script. For me, the negative parallelism "this ain't a catastrophe, it's a warning" feels AI, but I worry that it's become such a commonly known AI "tell" that it's just a false positive. But also, the phrase "this will only be the beginnings of my wicked ways" just feels AI-ish to me in a way that I can't put my finger on. Something about how elaborate and almost forced-poetic it feels, particularly given that it's a teenager in a highly emotionally charged moment. But that could just be bad writing.
Season 5 of Stranger Things was also speculated as having been partially written using AI (apparently the making-of documentary included a shot of the writers having ChatGPT as one of their browser tabs, but the speculation started before, AFAICT), with people making compilations like this one, but beyond the negative parallelisms - which could be false positives - I'm not sure how the other parts feel AI. Again, there's a bit of forced-poetic feel in a lot of it, especially given, again, these are mostly teenagers. But also, awful writing of teenagers that seem way too sophisticated or mature has plagued this series since at least season 4, probably at least season 3.
Does anyone better with words than me have any opinions on this?
I'd get doing AI for like a serious open world game where you need content on a macro scale that's gonna be broadly samey regardless, but surely you'd think simple output of script/dialogue isn't a gating factor in an experience that's pretty linear and self-contained like a TV show with a massive budget or a visual novel like Mixtape.
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