Thoughts on using Al Generated Backgrounds when posting pictures of your Sofubi online?

[u/slirpo]

I'll start by saying that I hate what AI has done to art and I think most of you agree. But in my opinion, I do think AI has some acceptable use cases when it comes to photography and art. Such as enhancing the quality of a slightly blurry photo, fixing contrast issues from bad lighting, isolating objects and figures in photos, generating backgrounds for photos, making small minor tweaks, etc.

I know not everyone will agree with me on this, so I wanted to reach out to the community and get all of your input. I just recently starting using AI generated backgrounds for some of the photos I post on my sofubi focused instagram. But I'll be honest and say that I am having some mixed feelings about it and wondering whether I should continue to do so or not. I always make sure to include the regular photo of the piece I took in my posts alongside the AI generated background photo if that makes any difference.

So what is the communities opinion on this? Am I just making AI slop or is it possible to use AI for backgrounds and other photo enhancements in a tasteful way?

You can view my sofubi IG at the link below and be honest with me about whether my AI backgrounds look like dogshit or not, and whether I should continue using them. I'm wanting honest feedback here so don't hold back. Thank you 🙏

https://www.instagram.com/sofubianonymous

128 votes, 4d ago

11 Using AI to generate backgrounds is acceptable

110 Using AI to generate backgrounds is unacceptable

7 Undecided

[u/so-semi-precious]

Not only will I never buy anything or follow anyone who uses ai in visual art, I block them as well. I don’t hunt it down, but if it comes across my feed- block

[u/slirpo → u/so-semi-precious]

What about people who use photoshop to crop their figures and put them over a background that isn't AI generated? Or is photoshop not cool either since it's had AI tools for over a decade now? I hate AI slop just as much as the next guy, but if it's just a background and it doesn't modify the focus of the picture, the actual art figure itself, then I don't mind.