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There they will be FORCED to pick up a PENCIL and DRAW and WRITE POETRY, BY HAND!

"Nooooooo, I just wanted to write prompts to make shitty catgirl pictures!"

"You will draw a pretty flower or be shot."

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Thing is, if someone dictates to a prompt, I want catgirl picture. No, blonde. Make her taller. Try a more sci-fi background. Now a more intimidating face.

That’s not an artist’s process. That’s the process of a director or producer, a marketing head to the artists telling them to refine an idea for a mascot until it hits their idea of optimal advertising. They don’t want to be artists, they want to be management.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I mean are directors not artists? I think the issue right now is everyone working on it is a tech nerd doing it as a tech hobby. Everyone is an amateur. I suspect there will eventually be people who actually know how to make real art with AI models. But they'll have to put as much effort as a real artist does. Way more than just "prompt engineering". I mean training your own custom models and coordinating whole teams of them.

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In a broad sense, yes directors are artists. But the people calling themselves AI artists aren’t seeing themselves that way, they see themselves as equivalent to “pick up a paintbrush” artist.

I think there are potential good use-cases for AI in art, but I think those are going to be more of a “cutting out busy work drudgery” things than doing the actual creating. Like, with music production, using AI for stem separation makes sense. It’s a long, arduous process to do it manually., rarely works well, and it’s not especially instructive. So yeah, let the AI do that.

[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

I would say currently every AI artist is worse than that. The AI is just a money machine and they turn the crank.

I agree the real "money" would be artists tools. I genuinely surprised we haven't seen more. But maybe there is and I just haven't touched Adobe in years.

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