[HN Gopher] Painting is Terribly Difficult
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       Painting is Terribly Difficult
        
       Author : prismatic
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-12-06 20:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Animats wrote:
       | Just to humans. Not to an AI.
        
         | BobaFloutist wrote:
         | I don't think AIs are particularly good at applying paint to a
         | canvas using a brush. Maybe the word you were looking for was
         | "printer"?
        
         | spinach wrote:
         | What AI does isn't painting.
        
           | pixl97 wrote:
           | I mean, couple it with one of these, and it is...
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           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LlZhlcJTU
        
         | gizajob wrote:
         | One of the things I enjoy about doing a painting is that it
         | _doesn't_ involve technology, just me, a canvas, and paint.
         | Machines equipped with mechanical arms are no doubt going to
         | soon be churning out fine painting after fine painting, but
         | nevertheless, it's an enjoyable human activity, made by humans
         | for humans.
        
       | a1o wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/FHkBL
        
       | Buttons840 wrote:
       | This seems to be about how making a living as a painter is
       | difficult.
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       | I've often thought that drawing or painting is difficult for ego
       | reasons. Few things demonstrate my incompetence to myself better
       | than failing to draw something. There is nothing I aspire to do
       | that would be more uncomfortable than drawing or painting a self
       | portrait. For these reasons, I've often thought about trying, but
       | I'm scared.
        
         | dieselgate wrote:
         | i've taken mechanical design courses where we kept a sketch
         | book and had to do a sketch-a-day kind of thing. it's something
         | you'll just naturally improve at the more you do it
        
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