Human artists also do a whole lot of mimicry. One could look at art produced by many artists and say that it is just things stitched together from pre-existing art.
For example the “enterprise vector people” graphics you see on every corporate website. Most human art is extremely repetitive.
AI art seems to be coming from the opposite direction to human artists - from a starting position of maximum creativity and weirdness (e.g. early AI art such as Deep Dream looked like an acid trip) and advancements in the field come from toning it down to be less weird but more recognizable as the human concept of “art”.
And DALL-E is impressive exactly because it has traded some of that creativity/weirdness away. But it’s still pretty damn weird.
zarzavat|3 years ago
AI art seems to be coming from the opposite direction to human artists - from a starting position of maximum creativity and weirdness (e.g. early AI art such as Deep Dream looked like an acid trip) and advancements in the field come from toning it down to be less weird but more recognizable as the human concept of “art”.
And DALL-E is impressive exactly because it has traded some of that creativity/weirdness away. But it’s still pretty damn weird.