aevaFeb 20
i'll say one nice thing about ai slop: the ai generated preview images continue to be a reliable indicator that there are other major issues with the article or video they represent. if the author couldn't be bothered to try to land a solid first impression, why, you can bet they didn't care enough to try and make anything else worth your time
Show threadaevaFeb 20

straw man: "but i can't draw and i hate artists"

look pal, you could take a sharpie and a piece of paper and draw crude stick figures with comic speech bubbles saying something witty and relevant to your blog post/video and I would be 10000x more impressed than the mockery of the human spirit you decided fit to represent your mingnum opus instead

Show threadarclight

@aeva Exhibit A: Kingdom of Loathing
Exhibit B: xkcd

It's more than okay to express yourself directly at the skill level you have. I want to see your original crappy drawings not some polished homogenized ripoff.

Feb 21 at 11:10amWeb
Show threadJanne MorenFeb 21

@arclight @aeva
Exhibit C: questionable content. Over the years the art has gone from "I can see what it's supposed to be" to "Yep, that's a professional comics artist right there".

If you want to do something but you're really bad at it, then do it anyway. Doing it, repeatedly and often and with intention, is how you gradually get decent, then good.