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That time a retired painter told me my AI art was 'missing the mess'
I was at a coffee shop in Portland last year showing some AI generated landscapes on my tablet when this older guy next to me said 'yours are clean but they don't have the noise.' He was a painter for 40 years, retired now, and he pulled out his phone to show me his own work - oil paintings with visible brush strokes and smudged edges. It made me think about whether AI art can ever really capture that human imperfection part. Anyone else ever had someone in real life give you honest feedback about AI stuff?
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wade2501mo ago
Ngl "happy accidents" is kinda romanticizing what's just physical limitation.
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charles6401mo ago
The funny thing is he might be onto something, just not in the way he intended. A lot of those "mistakes" in painting are actually happy accidents that come from physical limits like a shaky hand or drying paint, which AI can't replicate because it doesn't have a physical body. Maybe the real missing piece isn't mess itself, but the story behind why that mess is there in the first place.
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jamesf291mo ago
Total truth, my buddy had an old potter say his mugs were too perfect to hold coffee.
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