The more people lean on this crutch*, the worse the crutch gets. And the better my stuff looks, so note that I am arguing against interest here.
#commissionearned
*There’s nothing wrong with crutches… if you need one to walk. Just don’t expect to win many footraces with them.
But will this necessarily be the art made by an AI that awakens and becomes sentient? 🙂
Eh, calling it a crutch is a bit much.
When I got my table saw, it didn’t allow me to do a single new thing. It just made doing a bunch of stuff a heck of a lot more efficient.
From what I’ve seen from the digital artists I know, the whole LLM generated pictures is much the same. A few years back, one of them gave a lesson on how to make a starfield for a background. IIRC, it took three programs and an afternoon to render.
MidJourney will produce a similar level of result in a few minutes.
It’s not a finished product, of course, but neither was the fractal splatter.
Unsurprisingly, she LOVES MidJourney.
Dirty secret is: even PhotoShop and similar programs’ tools are just “directed AI” on spot work level.
In my experience, the stuff that gets called “artificial intelligence” is a really just a force multiplier (pretty much like any other tool). The quality of the results depends greatly on the skill of the person wielding it.
I’ve played around some with Bing’s image generator tool, and I’d have to say it’s not super impressive (although perhaps that’s a PEBCAK problem as well). But one problem I found was the tool analyzing the prompt text was deeply unimpressive for more complex requests.