MY STATEMENT ON AIΒ
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Far from being someone resistant to progress, I am, on the other hand, completely hostile to imposture. Like me, there are many artists who are capable of developing their ideas through their genuine talents, knowing how to write, draw, paint, and create with their own hands and their own ideas... Unfortunately, today we are literally overwhelmed by individuals who claim the title of artist on the mere pretext that they have β with the utmost laziness and the greatest disregard for what art truly is β asked an Artificial Intelligence to generate images or texts for them by simply providing, with the most lamentable ease, a few keywords.
β LIREΒ LA VERSION FRANΓAISEΒ
Far from being someone resistant to progress, I am, on the other hand, completely hostile to imposture. Like me, there are many artists who are capable of developing their ideas through their genuine talents, knowing how to write, draw, paint, and create with their own hands and their own ideas... Unfortunately, today we are literally overwhelmed by individuals who claim the title of artist on the mere pretext that they have β with the utmost laziness and the greatest disregard for what art truly is β asked an Artificial Intelligence to generate images or texts for them by simply providing, with the most lamentable ease, a few keywords.
Even more characteristic, these self-proclaimed "digital creators" deliver their "works" without even making the effort to correct the flaws. Why? Because they only have the title of "creator," and they are technically, intellectually and artistically incapable of working on these images or texts.
With the rise of this wave of impostors, art and artists are losing all their value. How many times have I been asked, while sharing one of my illustrations or stories, if I had generated it with the help of an AI? Is it no longer conceivable that humans are capable of creating, writing, drawing, or painting with their own hands and minds? When will the day come when genuine artists, proud to share their work, will be called liars, suspected of hiding the use of an AI to create in their place?
Being an artist means making the effort to spend hours and hours, days and days, on a work. It means suffering through having to sometimes erase everything to start over. Being an artist means finding pleasure in this creative suffering. Being an artist means being proud of the pain, frustration, and doubts that were necessary to create.
Giving a few keywords to an AI to create, effortlessly, in your place, will never make you an artist; it makes you impostors and thieves who absolutely do not deserve any visibility or respect, but rather the same contempt you show to true creators with your low-cost "works" entirely devoid of talent, know-how, and interest.
Today, I am truly disheartened to see this wave of AI-generated images and novels/texts spreading exponentially. As an artist who creates primarily through the alliance of his own hands and his own mind, I am increasingly bitter in the face of this multiplication of impostures, and particularly annoyed to see more and more people asking me if my various creations were made with the help of an Artificial Intelligence. π§ππ ππ‘π¦πͺππ₯ ππ¦ π‘π’!!!
As far back as I can remember, I have always drawn, wrote, created, sought to transcend the monotony of everyday life through artistic creation, whether pictorial, musical, or written. Today, all of my work, in all these fields, is the result of over 30 years of relentless learning, work, research, evolution, improvement, experimentation, experiences, and practice. Seeing all these efforts, all this energy, and all this passion reduced to mere suspicion that my works are just the result of using a cold and soulless software becomes particularly unbearable.
Sometimes this leads me to feel obliged to document the progress of my work to preserve evidence of the many stages of creation in case someone might, one day, cast doubt on the honesty of my creative process. It is not healthy to have to face this kind of constraint.
And it also often leads me to wonder if I really want to undertake the creation of a complex, time-consuming, and energy-draining work, taking the risk of facing skepticism from those who seem, very sadly, to have decided to believe that a human being is no longer capable of creating by himself and that he must necessarily rely on the help of artificial intelligence to express himself artistically.
For posterity and to affirm the sincerity of my work, I needed to share these words and conclude with this simple idea that ultimately sums up everything: Art is the alliance between know-how and intellectual creation. In art, the body and the mind cannot be separated.
DOLSON
DOLSON