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@BlueMonday1984 @dgerard as someone who lacks the skills to draw I've found it very helpful in some situations to create images way beyond my ability to create. So it does have uses, but I also know it is limited. So great for making pretty stuff but useless for accurate stuff. It's just another tool that it takes skill to use at the right times. Sadly it's being pushed as the answer to many things it is not.
Going from
to
in a span of less than a paragraph. C'mon, it's not a tool that takes skill. It's a substitute for skill. Knowing when and how it's appropriate to use AI for art is as much a skill as knowing when to wear a hole-ridden perma-stained Coldplay T-shirt. You could contrive an answer other than "never" but nobody will be impressed either by you doing so or actually wearing the shirt.
my best guess: it was free mental pretzels day somewhere, and our poster walked away with an armful
@bitofhope there is a big difference between art and generative AI and I'd never claim otherwise (at this stage of development, and likely for a long time). But it is useful, but you need to know the limits. If it's something professional I'd likely not touch it for many reasons. If it's something hobby related.... I'd give it a go. There is skill in being able to craft good inputs, and knowing what the limitations are of the system being used, and when you really shouldn't even bother trying.
You should try and use those skills to craft some good inputs to this website, to know what the limitations of my tolerance for promptfondler apologia are, and when you really shouldn’t even bother trying.
slopologia
ooh, nice one
for the love of fuck, learn to take a fucking hint. nobody’s going to give you a pat on the head for the art skills you don’t have. you aren’t tricking anyone into thinking you put effort into the stupid shit you wasted your time making. the only differences between the responses you’re getting here and the responses you’ll get elsewhere are that we’re brutally honest because we’re not trying to sell you or ourselves on a grift.
and now it’s time for you to stop taking up space in this thread with your mid horseshit
also
CHRIST
do you fucking people come off a factory line like this? please for the love of god, I am literally begging you, please go learn what the fuck a tool actually is
@froztbyte you apparently? ;p
But seriously, yes it's a software tool. Years ago we had typing pools, people whose job it was to type, format and layout documents for others, now we have computers with software for that job. We had people checking spelling, today software tooling does that. Generative AI is no different. Yes it removes some people's jobs, that's what new tech always has done. It also means someone like me can add pretty pictures to things that otherwise would have been text.
you are not tall enough for this ride
go get some candyfloss instead
Boooooo
"I am a hack and here's why that's good actually"
earlier today I clicked around a bit and Our Esteemed Poster is apparently big into the UK makerscene
make of this what you will
imagine how not-dead the pictures you want could be if you just threw a tenner or two at an artist instead! sadly it's people like you that's pushing them into precarity.
@froztbyte Honestly the things I've used generative AI for I would never have paid someone to do. It just added something extra. It's also about speed, I can spend 10 minutes getting a fairly decent image versus days needed if I can even find someone (I don't know, I've never had to!). The problem is that yes, this will take away lower end jobs for those who do currently pay artists.
Not sure what you're trying to win here. Absolution? A cookie? Someone saying that oh, your AI slop is probably fine and cool and the thing we don't like is those stupid other people's AI crap, not clever special guys like yours?
I can't stop you from prompting up some pictures but you can't make me respect it either.
so busy doing things because you could, you never paused to ponder whether you should
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a better use of sparkles than pretty much any prompt