I missed a lot of conversation. 😜
Personally, I look at art as ... in the eye of the beholder.
Art has never been my thing, I would often look at much of it and wonder what people see that makes them call it "great", and think to myself, what am I missing? After a while I came to realize, that beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.
When it comes to this so called "AI" art, and I use that term loosely becasue even though this is branded as AI, I don't see it that way. To me, these are just really advanced algorithms performing a task, some of them are static, some are "learning", but I don't really see it as true artificial intelligence. I think it's cool, I think it's a powerful tool, and while it is indeed artificial, I don't see it as intelligent, at least not yet.
As for the art itself, again, eye of the beholder. While I don't seem to care for most visual art styles, AI or human, there are exceptions. I often find myself liking pixel art and detailed creative photography of nature and technology, and I really enjoy it when it's based on retro/classic computing technology and electronics, probably because I'm just an old school classic geek.
That all being said, I've still been playing around with this Leonardo.AI trying to get images closer to what I see in my head, and just today, I got another output I was really happy with! Like some of the other's I've shared, this one was going for that "guy playing on his computer in the 1980's", and of course, in a pixel art style because it's what I like.
I've made several that were just ... no good ... often containing obvious "anomalies" that just make it "weird" to look at, but every so often, this particular AI gets it right. Like any algorithm, it's better at some things at others. I've learned that many of them, including Leonardo.AI, you can get 100 completely different outputs based on the same input, so it's really a crap-shoot. In a way, it's frustrating, yet fun, becasue you never know what you're going to get. In this case, I got a good one after playing with the input for a while.
I think I'm going to have to put the ones I really like on my blog. 😀