Do conservatives actually have a weird obsession with AI art, or is it just that it gets shared a lot here?
I could understand these people using it all the time, because it is art without the art, without the deeper meaning, it is just “pretty pictures” and conservatives hate the idea of anything having deeper meaning, everything must be a surface level analysis to them.
I think conservatives tend to have less artists. Its not like the current order treats most artists with much respect. This results in less art, but also less respect for paying artists (who are often seen as bohemian hippy types, however true that is). So AI art is a happy outcome for conservatives.
I think it’s less about making art in any sense than it is a way of visualizing ideology. The aesthetic issues and overall goofiness aren’t an issue to them because they want to express the brainworms. Same reason that John McNaugton paints Trump in that weird, realist style you also see with religious stuff, like this (CW: Drug Use):
I guess they can’t have deeper meaning behind their work because to express deeper meaning one needs to actually have something deeper behind it. There is a skull on the table because…drugs bad? All the imagery just reinforces the central idea, that taking drugs is bad because if you’re shooting, jesus is the one really getting high.
edit: My rambling actual point is that they can’t really express things in the abstract, everything has to be literal. AI is incapable of abstracting deliberately, as it just follows a prompt, so it is likely that they like it for this reason, there is no deeper meaning behind conservative art, and there is no deeper meaning behind AI art.
During the height of covid and the conservative reaction againat vaccine mandates, I had briefly thought it may had something to do with being afraid of the “ouchie”, and this work sorta reaffirms that. Without that fear, this painting doesn’t make any sense, just Jesus getting high on this guy’s behalf.
Do conservatives actually have a weird obsession with AI art, or is it just that it gets shared a lot here?
I could understand these people using it all the time, because it is art without the art, without the deeper meaning, it is just “pretty pictures” and conservatives hate the idea of anything having deeper meaning, everything must be a surface level analysis to them.
Fashies despise and refuse to understand art and culture, and therefore they’re easily suckered by fifth-rate imitations of it.
I think conservatives tend to have less artists. Its not like the current order treats most artists with much respect. This results in less art, but also less respect for paying artists (who are often seen as bohemian hippy types, however true that is). So AI art is a happy outcome for conservatives.
I think it’s less about making art in any sense than it is a way of visualizing ideology. The aesthetic issues and overall goofiness aren’t an issue to them because they want to express the brainworms. Same reason that John McNaugton paints Trump in that weird, realist style you also see with religious stuff, like this (CW: Drug Use):
That’s fucked up. I paid for that heroin and Jesus wants to be a free loader
I guess they can’t have deeper meaning behind their work because to express deeper meaning one needs to actually have something deeper behind it. There is a skull on the table because…drugs bad? All the imagery just reinforces the central idea, that taking drugs is bad because if you’re shooting, jesus is the one really getting high.
edit: My rambling actual point is that they can’t really express things in the abstract, everything has to be literal. AI is incapable of abstracting deliberately, as it just follows a prompt, so it is likely that they like it for this reason, there is no deeper meaning behind conservative art, and there is no deeper meaning behind AI art.
its a memento mori innit. kinda badass.
During the height of covid and the conservative reaction againat vaccine mandates, I had briefly thought it may had something to do with being afraid of the “ouchie”, and this work sorta reaffirms that. Without that fear, this painting doesn’t make any sense, just Jesus getting high on this guy’s behalf.
Shooting heroin next to my decorative skull
Who wouldn’t
Also it’s not decorative, it’s important for my phrenological studies
Actually, my phrenology research came to me in a heroin induced stupor