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The Aesthetic Rebellion

A comic in four panels.

Panel 1. Cepper is happy of herself in front of her large canvas: a beautiful painting as she did on the previous episodes. The parrot looks at what she does on his perch.
Cepper: β€œAlright, this is how I usually do it.”
Parrot: β€œThat style has high coherence for training data βˆ’ I love it.”

Panel 2. Cepper took her brush and now scribble on the canvas. (note: visual concept of the episode: the panel style itself is altered while Cepper tells it.) The Parrot feels uneasy.
Cepper: β€œI know, and that’s exactly the problem. I should start by making the outline rougher.”

Panel 3. Cepper is adding thick painting directly from the tube, and now rub furiously her canvas, many colors and glitches. The Parrot start to be horrified.
Cepper: β€œ...more angular shapes, a rougher texture, and an overall less polished look.”

Panel 4. The style is totally degraded: shapes, colors, glitches. Cepper leaves the canvas with triumph, throwing her brush, while the Parrot is now really horrified in front of it.
Cepper: β€œPerfect. Try to train on that now, you tin can.”

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[–] 36 points 2 months ago

I love how the comic itself also becomes more β€œrough and unpolished” each panel 🀌

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    The comic actually raises a really interesting point. The internet already loves abstract, surreal humor but adopting it even more heavily as a defense mechanism against AI is the sort of thing that we're going to look back at historically as having potentially influenced an entire movement.

    Although it's kind of debatable if art movements exist as such anymore. Somewhat related, I watched this good video about divine machinery a few weeks ago, check it out: Analyzing Divine Machinery as an "”Art Movement"”

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Art movements are no longer localized like it was before instant communication - most people can pretty clearly see when japanese anime style took over the west, for instance, but even that wasn't "a movement". Likewise, going more abstract/psychodelic/"shitty" looking to fight against AI won't be "a movement", but it'll be a valid way of expression.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You are just teaching it to cope with it's greatest weakness, like a bacteria developing antibiotic resistance.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago

    artist make more interesting art to spite AI

    is this a win?

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  • [–] 50 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    The way he draws ladies is amazing

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Name one unpleasant goth witch... ;)

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Also apologies if that's your culture rather than trolling. (In which case, worked)

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  • The timelaps is a nice bonus to see.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    I can't wait until the next generation of AI steals his skin.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Doubt this will work.

    AI trains on patterns. And we humans need patterns. So the comic will have patterns the AI can train on.

    The only thing that might work is being so extremely abstract. It only uses non-geometric shapes and concepts.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Got to love Dave.

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