Welcome to the "Auntieverse" - a surreal tribute to "auntie culture" by artist Niceaunties, inspired by the spirit of the women who care for each other and their families. From sushi-bedecked cars with legs to hot tub baths full of ramen, Niceaunties shares a visual feast that fuses AI and imagination and celebrates the eccentric, vibrant world of aunties with reverence and awe. (Slides created with AI including Midjourney and DALL·E 3 for text-to-image creation; magnific.ai and Topaz Labs for upscaling the images; Pikalabs and Runwayml for animation.)
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It's profitable
@@caleighf.sudama-charles9504 to who other AI entrepreneurs or social media bots?
AI: Aunty Intelligence
Eh, I wish that this wasn't about promoting AI. If you wanted to encourage these older ladies to put out their eccentricity, this is not the way to do it (because this makes it look like you don't need them). This is why I stand steadfast against AI. Because its goal involves replacing the people who are important to the art itself. I get the story, but the problem is that this is disposing of the point of encouraging people to be involved provides a surreal delusion that people are just not necessary. And these kinds of 'creators' are ignorant to this.
Did I miss something or is this artist/presenter not credited with this presentation and art by name? Nothing in the video description! Is this perhaps a meta-AI production - the artist/presenter, script, art, stage and audience also composed with an AI?
I find this rather nightmarish.
Love Auntie, stay authentic "dominion rd dumpling" exehibition Akl NZ 2024 ???????
I'm ok with AI as a conceptualization tool for generating new ideas and being inspired by the images produced, but not as a way to produce the final product. That's my personal view, as I understand art is subjective. In my opinion though, there are several aspects of her images that are glaringly distorted/ disfigured (as many AI-generated images are). I personally do not care for them because rather than focusing on the subject and themes of the "art," one can't help but be distracted by the unintentional "errors" or "distortions" in the image generation.
If I think back, what she used is kind of a surrealist style created by Japanese artists, and these ideas are very similar to many scenes in movies. AI is significantly copying everything.
Seems like a fun and interesting way to use AI. Niceaunties is really funny!
This is great! I'd love to know what she used to make the video's. Some look excellent!
Ted provides a platform for consideration of ideas. It's not promoting AI art. If you haven't tried using prompts to create, you won't understand the nuances of language necessary to get a baby hippo to ballet dance. But just occasionally, the tech will create something you didn't consider. AI art is a partnership.
It's just been most of their talks recently have been on the subject of AI. I know for a fact AI isn't the only thing going on right now, and I'm completely uninterested. So far it's just made my life less convenient. What am I supposed to take from it, am I supposed to be inspired to go... Also generate some AI art? What do I take from this? The talk on crocheted hyperbolic planes inspired my mother to create a coral reef out of yarn. Great, AI can make images and the images can be nice. What's my takeaway???
@@thoopsy lol I agree, there are lots of things on TED that don't work for me either. However, in the interests of not chucking the baby out with the bathwater, something like this may be the inspiration for the opposite point of view - test your views, if you like?
This reminds me of the animated film "Paprika"
It's nothing like it!
For me at least, the fact that these arts are AI generated immediately discredits her creativity and loses my interest altogether.
This brought me joy and we need more of that. It may not be the type of art we’ve been accustomed to but it serves a purpose. There is room for all.
I love everything about this, not just great way to use AI as a tool to make superb imagery but the messages behind it. This is what makes it art.
"Never before have I found a medium that felt like the shortest path between my ideas and the visual." And the only thing that necessitates this miraculous hack is stealing and proliferating work of 10,000 of uncredited and unpaid artists. 😊😊😊 All that to create an alternative universes for silenced and marginalised women on a computer. Rather than, y'know, do literally anything to improve these women's lives and challenge rigid societal norms in real life. But no, art theft it is!
Okay. So name an artist her work resembles. You can't can you, because it's wholly original.
What am I supposed to get from this. Wild imagination 😊
This is a real stretch even then I don't understand what it's stretching for and the way it's stretching is unethical.
I don't really care about a TED talk being about AI, I do care about the relevancy of the people invited. What's mostly needed to make AI art is just typing on a keyboard, most people can do it, so why invite niceaunties, instead of anyone else who made ai art ? It does feel like in the past few years that the quality of hosts invited to TED talks has deteriorated gradually. Such a shame.
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AI prompts are not art, if you use it as a tool to Improve handmade drawings is something different, but typing in a prompt which are just words and changing those to Fix broken hands or backgrounds... well thats more like coding than "Creating art".
Sounds like semantics to justify gatekeeping to me. How about this: if someone uses tools to create something new, you can call that art. You might not like it, think it's lazy or easy, but that's still art. If a baby spills some paint on a piece of paper that's categorically art. Just admit you don't like AI 😅
@@l01230123gatekeeping? Just get a mirco doc and start writing. Learn how to use digital art programs and make art. It's not hard to make art. The challenge is making good art.
I’m shocked at the “ageism” represented by these alleged aunties. These images are not of mothers or aunties; there’s straight up grandmas; all with white hair and wrinkled skin. This is simply making fun of old people. It’s very unwelcome to make fun of people that have probably acquired wisdom through tough times that life has to offer. It’s unfair and unfunny, except possibly at first glance, but gets “old” really fast. Discriminatory
Hahahahaha wtf are you waffling about ? The fact your offended is fkn hilarious 😂😂😂
@@anthraxchinwobble1 Hopefully one day you will come to your senses and understand. Right now it would be ludicrous to answer any further, because ignorance is still “bliss”.
It's simply staggering how a whole new universe is possible in a short time using AI. The humour, nostalgia and love mark this out as extraordinary work with its playful references to disappearing cultural norms. Like all great art it has the power to transcend difference and meaning, while still reserving the right of art to unsettle and disturb our conplascency.
What is and isn't art shouldn't be the question here. The real question is "Is it ethical?" When she says "With AI, it's just me!" she's fundamentally incorrect. As long as her images are AI-generated from banks of other photographers and artists, she is a fancy editor of their works. And if she's using those photos and art without their permission? She's a thief.
I'm kinda surprised this is the first time I read this (reasonable) criticism. Willing artists and companies should be paid for their work before others profit off it, but there's also free licensed images that could be used too. It's a real problem depending on the model she's using, and regulations are slower than basic ethical considerations :l
@@l01230123 I think there would have been a much smoother rollout of AI-generated images in the "court of public opinion" if the databases had been built out of work that was paid for. But because they didn't, many artists feel even MORE threatened because not only do they fear losing their jobs, but it their own work is being used to do it. The enemy here is greed, not engineers or designers or CEOs or artists or TED.
I feel both questions are important. But, the fact they're using tons of art without permission is concerning. And they'll make tons of excuses of how these lifeless machines are similar to humans.
@@tressonkaru7410 The question "What is art?" will always be something of a debate, and that is good! (Is Jackson Pollock art? Is Piss Jesus art?) I mean that here, in the comments, I think the more pressing issue is the ethics.
@@MandyBB If you're allowed to download other people images manually to study and refer to, you should be allowed to use an automated tool to do it as well.
i love your work!. following your insta and i was so happy to see this pop up in my youtube feed. absolutely amazing and beautiful imagination!!! ❤👏🏽 please keep producing wonderful content.
I really like that she's not moving her hands around to seem more "confident" (as taught by professional speakers and body language experts) It's so played out and obvious.
AI may be data science, but it's no art
I wish you’d talked about your process - along with your fascinating concept
I'm so excited and happy for you! Well done, your work is outstanding. I follow you on Instagram and your creative concepts are so original and inspiring. Keep up the brilliant work :)
AI art is not art.
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Ai art is not art, it has no soul and creativity.
It can inspire creativity though
Neither do humans have soul. lol
@@Ruby_Villainit an extent, yes. Like, if I wanted an image of what a detective who using dark magic could look like. I could ask an ai to make an image, then start writing from there.
please tell us how her art is not creative ? Please tell us how it does not have soul ? It's not just art made by AI. She generates it. She brings the ideas behind the art that's generated by AI
I understand AI image generation is one of the new big hot topics, but can we Please have some balance?? I'm completely uninterested in this, I follow TED for interesting people bringing their expertise.
AI art is soulless and this should not be considered art at all.
Humans don't have souls either lol
@@sparkofcuriousity okok mr cynic
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so dumb
AI is not art and people who use AI are not artists.
lol ok grampa
Ai is a tool, and people who use it are artists. You realize artists often dabble in multiple mediums?
Is buying a commission from an artist make you an artist? Because the same logic applies. Both commissioner and so called ai artist say something or someone to drawn or generate that thing and they get the result. @@Ruby_Villain
People said the same stuff about photography and modern art. At least AI looks better than the vast majority of modern work that is shovelled out into the public
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I'm so confused by the thumbnail
Another AI video TED ? This is getting more and more frustrating. All these videos promoting AI art do not discuss the dangers of stealing other people's art for this and how AI needs to be more legislated. I'm unsuscribing for now because it seems like these days all your videos are uncritically promoting AI...
Artists don't use AI, TED. Generated images are not art. Shame on you.
You are probably an artist .... Right??😅
@@Sibananda_8144 not a visual artist, no. Why?
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You know dinosaurs went extinct right?
@@sparkofcuriousity obviously. Are you going to try and say "we've evolved past a need for art"?
Ive. I love how people non on the field of computation always takes the final step to say ai is not art and stole art from real people, first we can debate it, second is not like that, thats not how presictive models work xD
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Many "artists" really afraid here in the comments section echoing the "Ai is not art" empty sentence. Soon you'll learn that who defines in the majority of cases what is art or not is the public that appreciates them and unfortunatly you´ll notice that the vast majority of the public is already enjoying AI art (a lot). Nice Aunties numbers in social media are outstanding. It raises the question of whether individual opinions can outweigh collective appreciation when it comes to defining art.
Join the future. When photography was invented, people said photography is not art. I liken AI art to photography. The artist is not generating the art by hand (like they would in an oil painting, water color, or charcoal drawing), but the end product is a reflection of the artist’s creativity. One thing that bothers me about AI art is they all look the same stylistically. They all look as if generated by the same artist (even if they are generated by different software). I need to understand AI art generation programs better to figure out why. I am a professionally / classically trained artist and also a computer scientist.
a photographer does not go to a mountain range and type into the camera "make an image of that mountain range." angles, lighting, timing, framing, positioning, constructing the environment in such a certain way, filters, colour grading, general editing all take skill and work. an ai 'artist' tells ai "make an image of a mountain range," with MAYBE a few more menial details. that is not art. if i commission an artist to draw me something and tell them exactly in great detail what to draw, i still did not draw that fucking image. it's the same with ai. you told an ai to approximate what words you put into it based on a database of images identified as certain things, like "blue cat" or "jagged mountain." it is not art. and no artist who knows the skill, knowledge, and effort that it takes to make art, as you claim to be, would ever consider those two things on the same level at all.
The thing is that you don't have a good control over what the AI does. Most of the commercial solution output a specific and predefinded art style and if you use open source tools, it is still hard to get something unique looking. AI is pretty much Google image search. So with a short prompt you get the top search results that all look the same and if you use very specific searches, you might find nothing.
Your comparison of AI art to photography is lacking to say the least. AI ‘art’ is more like someone taking a photo of another photographers picture then altering said photo to produce something else and then passing it off as an original piece with no sources or permissions to use the original photographers image.
@@olivermccarthy456 Your comparison of an AI prompt being more like a commission than creating art yourself if kinda perfect.
Art has become life
Get with the times guys or you will be left behind.
All the butthurt failed artists are flocking to this comment section, it seems. AI art is mid and if you are being threatened by it, your art was never good enough in the first place.
So true. All this “ai art is not art” is heavily emotion filled
Fragile egos are easily threatened. It's sad to see all these "ai is not art" comments. They're so emotional about it too lol
real artists use AI and benefit from it, only mediocrity is afraid
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