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Nope — You’re Not an Artist Now That You Discovered MidJourney
And the same goes for low-code/no-code — using it doesn’t make you a developer.
There’s a big hype going on now on the potential of text-to-image AI where, only by prompting a text, you get a mindblowing image, amazingly accurate with your description to the point you get addicted to testing its limits.
If you haven’t heard about it yet, there are several text-to-image tools in place at the moment, and you can find quite some nice reviews by Jim Clyde Monge on the topic, so I’m not going to spend time on it. Instead, I’d like to analyze how we perceive these state-of-the-art tools and what our reaction says about us.
Like many people that heard about this technology, I have been keen on testing it to see what it’s like. I was impressed, but I quickly understood that this is a mirage I must be careful with because we can easily get drunk with the wrong impression of being a creator. Can we be called creators for using a tool that creates something new and potentially original? What does it take to call it “art”? Believe it or not, some people already fancied the term “text-to-art”, but I would be wary of that.
What stance would I take regarding a piece of art that has taken huge amounts of work and time to…
