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HackworthI’ve heard people say that using AI image generators is a technical skill. It’s not. It’s about as hard as using Google.
Ever watch other people search? It’s definitely a skill.
railway692I agree that it’s a skill, but I think the point is that it’s a skill with a very low ceiling compared to art.
Like being able to use a coffee machine.
db0So you would say the level of skill, study and practice for genai art is approximately the same as a non-ai artist?
Because that was the statement you disagree with.
Those two statements aren’t synonymous at all, but also, yes.
Everything that you do as part of a process to create non-AI art, as soon as there is a digital component (even if the digital component isn’t in the end product), can be done as part of a process involving AI art. The only difference is that non-AI art doesn’t have the flexibility of using the tools available to AI artists.
If anything, the skill floor is lower for AI art, because you can much more easily churn out something that looks technically good at a glance with a single prompt, but the ceiling is higher, because you literally have more skills available to combine when creating your finished product.
(This of course assumes that you consider any art created with GenAI art in the process to be GenAI art, regardless of what else was involved, but most people with a hardline stance that creating GenAI art takes no skill would agree with that statement.)