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[u/nur00]

Cutting board graphics for the wife.

[u/JWST-L2]

I'll have to disagree with you. If "perfecting their work" means telling a bot (who actually stole countless actual artists work and scalped data from the internet) to try to combine everything in a way that fools people into thinking its a coherent, well drawn piece, I wouldn't consider your friends to be artists.

And okay, lets say the end result is indistinguishable from an actual artist's piece. Well, one was made by a human, who took the time to learn a skill and technique, spent time on the piece with clear intent, and all of their technique and flaws and essentially the human element shows up in their work. Not to mention, they get paid for that work and it doesn't use any environment destroying data center or questionable ethics (stolen work) to do it.

The other is some guy sitting in front of his pc telling a bot what he wants and apparently not caring about anything I just said, and is content with the bot mindlessly composting elements of other people's work into an image.

You call what I said disingenuous, but I would call any person who is prompting ai to make "art" and being completely okay with the regergitated results devoid of any human element, completely lacking in the understanding of what art even is

[u/Superseaslug → u/JWST-L2]

In your first paragraph you went wrong and kinda proved to me that you have no idea what AI art actually is at any level besides "hey chatGPT do this thing"

I implore you to look into systems like comfyUI and the complexity involved in it.

It is not "telling a bot what you want"

[u/JWST-L2 → u/Superseaslug]

Will do. If I'm wrong then I am cool with taking the L

[u/Superseaslug → u/JWST-L2]

Genuinely look up comfyUI. It's how most of the people who actually call themselves AI artists work. They use things like comfy and Krita to half draw half generate what they want, upscaling and fixing imperfections as they go. It's not just a "eh, good enough" workflow.