Ben Higbie
Aaron DeVries@BenHigbie art AI is photoshop with less steps. It can be used to help brainstorm or get ideas as a reference. But the raw outputs are not art, it's a photoshop amalgamation of others work. Use it as a reference tool like using Google images, but not to create a final product. I use GPT to help make simple scripts for my games or brainstorm concepts for writing. But I would never let it make a game for me or write a story for me. I still preffer paying real humans for art and script work anyway.
@Aaron_DeVries My main issue with it is how ugly it is. My second issue with it is that many people have accused me of using digital tricks like AI. I am a portrait artist and especially on FB, people are constantly accusing me of using photoshop or whatever. And they accuse me of being a scammer. It's like they arent aware that fine art schools exist and people attend them and study things like oil painting and anatomy drawing. Their first reaction when seeing a nice piece of art is 'scam'.
@BenHigbie that really sucks. Facebook is a cesspool at the best of times, but that's no excuse. I've seen a lot of artists getting accused of using AI when their portfolios extend back decades.
It's the people who accuse artists of trying to gatekeep that bother me the most. As if being an artist is guaranteed income, or no artists does what they do for any reason other than profit motive.
@Aaron_DeVries AI is a great way for talentless people with bad taste who are cheap and dont want to pay an artist to produce something of actual value to be able to feel they've created something.
@Aaron_DeVries Yea I dont even advertise on FB anymore on buy and sell sites cause I was just constantly trying to convince people accusing me that there was no digital manipulation or anything. I dont understand why so many people arent aware that there are still people who attend fine arts schools. There are fine arts schools, many of them, in every state. Dont these people know that like. people attend them? Like, wtf lol