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“© Danielle Sanfilippo - 13h -@​
Posting this on behalf of a member who would like to remain anonymous:

I'm an art director and supervisor for a large studio. The studio heads had the bright idea
before I started to hire prompters. Several bros were brought onto the film project. I
absolutely hated myself for not quitting on the spot but stuck with it because it’s
mercenary out there. Have a family to feed etc. I decided to use this time wisely. Treat
them as I would any artist I had hired. First round of pictures of a sweeping Ariel forest
landscape comes through and it’s not bad. They submit a ton of work and one or two of
the 40 are ok. Nearly on brief. So first round feedback goes through and I tell them about
the perspective mistakes, colour changes I want, layers that any matte painting would be
split into. Within a day I get 5 variants. Not changes to the ones I wanted but variations.
Again. Benefit of the doubt I give them another round of feedback making it clear. Next day
it’s worse. I sit there and patiently paint over, even explaining the steps I would take as a
painter. They don’t do it, anomalies start appearing when I say I want to keep the exact
image but with changes. They can’t. They simply don’t have the eye to see the basic
mistakes so the Ai starts to over compensate. We get people starting to appear in the
images. These are obviously holiday snaps.

“Remove the people”

“What would you like them changed to?”

“... grass. I just don’t want them there”

They can’t do it. The one that can actually use photoshop hasn't developed the eye to see
his mistakes, ends up getting angry at me for not understanding he can’t make specific
changes. The girl whose background was a little photography has given me 40
progressively worse images with wilder mistakes every time. This is 4 days into the project.
I'm both pissed about the waste, but elated seeing ai fall at the first hurdle. It’s not even
that the images are unusable, the people making them have no eye for what's wrong, no
thicker skin for constructive criticism and feedback, no basic artistic training in perspective
and functionality in what they’re making.

Yes the hype is going to pump more money into this. They won't go anywhere for a while.
But this has been such a glowing perfect moment of watching the fundamental part fail in
the face of the most simple tasks. All were fired and the company no longer accepts Ai
prompters as applicants. Your training as an artist will always be the most important part of
this process and it is invaluable. I hope this post gives you a boost in a dark time.