More thoughts on #DeviantArt and #AI. They are pushing the idea that you pay for use of their image creator (#DreamUp) and sell your creations.
The idea that “prompting” is in any way a marketable skill is pretty ridiculous. People even add watermarks to their images, because people might ARTTHIEFF!!!11 them *snort*.
However, I do actually quite like that AI art is devaluing slick, clichéd rubbish, that was previously the most popular stuff in most art communities.
Now anyone can produce a beautiful catgirl elf portrait in teh style of the top of ArtStation, dramatic lighting, digital art, sexy cute beautiful furry anime.
@john as @tante so accurately put it:
But all we have done is created a machine that you can give your “idea” and it returns the most average milktoast representation of it. Your reaction of “this is exactly what I imagined” says more about the long road ahead that that idea still needed to go than about how good these systems are.
John Conway
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