Daring FireballMatthew Inman of The Oatmeal: ‘A Cartoonist’s Review of AI Art’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/16/oatmeal-ai-art
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/10/16/oatmeal-ai-art
~@daringfireball I think I’m more upset that he doesn’t seem to respect writing as a craft. Have we just gotten used to computers spitting often-useless text at us over the years, that it somehow seems less threatening to writers? Because it is still threatening writers, the same way it’s threatening humans being in most crafts: taking out all the support for people who haven’t gotten good at it yet.
@daringfireball anyway, on the central question, I think I agree with him: it isn’t a choice. Fundamentally I engage with art as an expression of intention. I don’t know if I think effort or suffering matter, but intention certainly does. Recognizing and questioning artistic choices in art is the same skill as knowing that “did you break that vase?” “I didn’t knock it off the table!” this answer didn’t address the question, and why someone might have given that answer to this question anyway.
@daringfireball AI art therefore fails for me in exactly the same ways AI writing does: a lack of intention. Mimicking creative choices, like the structure of a third act twist, without intending to say anything by it. It’s genuinely just sad!
Do I think it’s doomed forever? Kinda, yeah! I don’t see how something derived from the current tech is ever going to get there.
@daringfireball perhaps this is just a lack of vision on my part. Perhaps, as well, I’m missing out on innovations by avoiding as much of this as I possibly can. I don’t think I’m going to regret that, though lol, I’m going to enjoy human art while we still have it, cause the sludge will be here forever regardless.