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Friday, February 20, 2026
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Art Nouveau
This one looks CGI generated.*
*Now that I've brought it up, it could be AI generated. What's the basic difference?
CGI stands for "computer generated imagery". It uses computers to create pictures, including moving pictures, but the artist is still in full detailed control of the result. The artist uses the computer program as a tool, the same way a traditional artist uses a paintbrush or a stop-motion animator uses poseable models. The human creator does all the work of determining what the imagery will look like, and the quality of the result depends on that creator's talent. Most movie special effects for several decades have been done with CGI. Jurassic Park is an example of high-quality CGI effects.
"AI" or "artificial intelligence" (though there is no actual intelligence involved) creates text or imagery from brief written prompts. The person who wrote the prompt has no control over the details of what the machine produces, and the appearance of the result is unrelated to any talent the prompt writer has. The machine is just putting words or pixels together in patterns based on the vast amount of text and imagery that was plagiarized to "train" it. This is why, at least in the US, "AI"-generated text and images cannot be copyrighted. Copyright law exists to protect the rights of a person over what he created, but "AI"-generated material was not created by anyone, it's just a mish-mash of bits and pieces from earlier works which can't be identified from the final result.
They really are completely different. A CGI image of a person would not have a six-fingered hand unless the person who made it consciously intended it to have that -- just as with a drawing. "AI" images constantly include those kinds of errors because they're created by a machine that doesn't know what it's doing (only a conscious entity can "know" things), not by a person.
What's the basic difference?
ReplyDeleteCGI stands for "computer generated imagery". It uses computers to create pictures, including moving pictures, but the artist is still in full detailed control of the result. The artist uses the computer program as a tool, the same way a traditional artist uses a paintbrush or a stop-motion animator uses poseable models. The human creator does all the work of determining what the imagery will look like, and the quality of the result depends on that creator's talent. Most movie special effects for several decades have been done with CGI. Jurassic Park is an example of high-quality CGI effects.
"AI" or "artificial intelligence" (though there is no actual intelligence involved) creates text or imagery from brief written prompts. The person who wrote the prompt has no control over the details of what the machine produces, and the appearance of the result is unrelated to any talent the prompt writer has. The machine is just putting words or pixels together in patterns based on the vast amount of text and imagery that was plagiarized to "train" it. This is why, at least in the US, "AI"-generated text and images cannot be copyrighted. Copyright law exists to protect the rights of a person over what he created, but "AI"-generated material was not created by anyone, it's just a mish-mash of bits and pieces from earlier works which can't be identified from the final result.
They really are completely different. A CGI image of a person would not have a six-fingered hand unless the person who made it consciously intended it to have that -- just as with a drawing. "AI" images constantly include those kinds of errors because they're created by a machine that doesn't know what it's doing (only a conscious entity can "know" things), not by a person.