The user, me included, has less and less knowledge and skills though.
When your tool becomes a megacorp owned subscription based service you barely understand is it really a tool ? It doesn't produce art in the way a brush and paint produce art, you barely have any control on what it does, you just become an image filter, you press a few keys, look at the image for 5 seconds and decide if it triggers the right part of your brain or not
It's not so different from the artist shitting on canvas, but at least he had the creativity to do something new and daring.
The end result might be called art but the whole process is completely devoid of what makes art "art"
You have quite a lot of control from style and colour to composition by feeding in initial images. You can do this iteratively, selecting parts you want to keep and others you want to adjust.
Photography hasn't killed art, yet you can describe it as "point at something and press a button". Sure you'll get something out of it, and it might be alright. But the great outputs take more work and care, just like with the air art now.
When your tool becomes a megacorp owned subscription based service you barely understand is it really a tool ? It doesn't produce art in the way a brush and paint produce art, you barely have any control on what it does, you just become an image filter, you press a few keys, look at the image for 5 seconds and decide if it triggers the right part of your brain or not
It's not so different from the artist shitting on canvas, but at least he had the creativity to do something new and daring.
The end result might be called art but the whole process is completely devoid of what makes art "art"