> Like I said before, your own insecurities are your own issues and not something you need to repeatedly insist I'm poking at. When I say appreciate, my point is that it's a basic element of art and art theory. It's like in wine tasting, there are basic elements to it and one would expect that anyone experienced with wine tasting would have some understanding of those basic elements. Here in painting, the texture of a painting is a basic element of what a painting is.

This doesn't actually dispute what I said. You're making an assertion that I'm not appreciating a "basic" element of art. You keep saying I'm exposing some insecurity, but this is exactly what some holier-than-thou sanctimonious asswipe who thinks that they truly "get it" would say.

Also interesting that you bring up wine tasting: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/jun/23/wine-ta...

> You saying it'd be superficial to emphasize body parts a certain ways. Not that body parts are inherently superficial.

I'm arguing that emphasizing the 3-dimensionality of this is a superficial decision. I'd argue less-superficial stuff would be something like "what is the intended meaning of this painting".

> "Oh yeah, sure I was talking about robots but that doesn't matter with painting because of pixel art"

I didn't really say that. I said, and this is I believe the third or fourth time I've repeated myself, with AI art I was suggesting we have a workaround to avoid a lot of robotics by fast-forwarding to an end state. You call it "pixel art" to dismiss it and that's fine but it's also pretty stupid.

As I said in my first response (which you very dismissively responded to because fundamentally you don't have much to go on outside of being self-righteous about your superior "appreciation" of art apparently) if you want to be literal of course a PAINTing would require paint. And if the texture of it is really important to you then fan-fucking-tastic, Stable Diffusion and DALL-E isn't going to replace that any time soon. You win I guess? I never disputed this fact.

I used the term "painting" in a less literal sense, and it's actually not in any way weird for me to do so. There are digital art programs like "Corel Painter" and "Paint Shop Pro" and "PaintStorm", which as far as I am aware do not actually involve any real paint. They use the computer display as a metaphor for the canvas, and these things give some facsimile of something like "painting".

You're then of course free to say "well real artist appreciators like me don't consider that painting", and that's fine, but I'd like to point out that you are on Hacker News, so a person using the term "Painting" to mean something like CorelPainter isn't really weird at all, and getting annoyed by that really comes off as pedantic.

> Good old paintings are dense with layers of texture and paint that come off the canvas, and it'd be readily observable to anyone seeing them in person,

I've seen plenty of paintings in person. Clearly it's not as important to me as it is to you. That's fine.

ETA:

Wait, how exactly is it "fundamentally disingenuous" to say we have a workaround for AI art that doesn't involve hands? It's not "disingenuous", I didn't really know what specific aspect of painting you were fucking talking about, so I mentioned we can work at a pixel level. I didn't know that you were going to be a fucking pedantic douche and just say LOL THAT'S NOT PAINTING AND YOU'RE INSECURE AHAHAHHA FUCK OFF!