Promting to copy is art...I swear.
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They are artists, in the same way Subway employees are sandwich artists. (That’s probably rude to Subway workers.)
lol someone in this thread is mad. Every comment here is getting exactly one downvote
The insane influx is what bothers me the most.
94 Ai art vs 4 human drawn in some cases
Its ridiculous. Some just toss all their "prompt creations" online and call it a day.
Terrible invention
I had given up on my art after decades of no progress. I spent the time I would have spent on improving my art (and many other things) on raising my children instead.
When A1111 came out I tried it and was trying to train it on my old art. I thought maybe AI can bridge the gap in my technical shortcomings.
I got frustrated that I couldn't get it to replicate my style so I bought a wacom knockoff to fill in the blanks where the AI struggled. That lead to more actual practice and me getting better without AI and shortly there after giving up on AI image generation.
Now I can do some pretty good stuff I could never do two or three years ago. And the be toy that is AI got me started again.
I never considered anything I did with A1111 to be "art", it was a toy I was trying to push to its limits and that processes got me back into a hobby I love.
Setting aside all the ethical nightmares for a sec, AI is a pretty good tool to review your work. You can give your art to ai, ask to "improve it", and it will give you something which you can then pick and choose parts to add to your art (by yourself. Not by AI).
It's like a mentor helping you improve by pointing out stuff you missed. It's free constructive criticism (which a lot of beginners don't have/don't hear), so as long as you take what it suggests (and remove things you don't like), you'll improve and slowly don't need it.
The goal is to let it give ideas. Not a guide, nor do it for you. Now if only there were ethical AIs for this... But may as well ask for the wealthy top 50 to disappear mysteriously instead
The ethical stuff is a real issue, not just how the training is derived but wealth inequality being accelerated and so on.
That said if you find yourself in a place where it's "use AI or lose your job", using AI is probably best unless you're independently wealthy already.
And if you're in that place, don't use it wrong. Make sure to train the AI you're using on correct (and ethically sourced) materials. GPTs your company pays for will have a path to this for example.
Just asking an untrained AI specific questions about your work isn't likely to end well. And then people give up on the tool and eventually lose their job over it.
It sucks ass, and I expect down votes for even sharing this. But I know too many people who have been let go and are really struggling to find another job. So do what you need you do to keep feeding your family.
And vote against the assholes putting us in this place. Join a Union if you can, etc.
They don't care, they're only doing it to make money
Idk, I've seen enough people who genuinely think they're a talented artist (or programmer) for just prompting
Or they're doing it because they wanted a particular piece of artwork.
I've generated a ton of stuff over the years and never once thought about selling any of it, because I generated it to use it. Or just because I thought it would be funny.
I think there's a lot of projection here. A lot of people who use AI art tools couldn't care less about whether they're called "artists", it just doesn't matter. It's irrelevant. The goal is to have the art, not to gain some particular arbitrary title.
I see what you did there (not O)P
DSLR vibes.