There they will be FORCED to pick up a PENCIL and DRAW and WRITE POETRY, BY HAND!

“Nooooooo, I just wanted to write prompts to make shitty catgirl pictures!”

“You will draw a pretty flower or be shot.”

  • Owl [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Art is the process, not the end result.

    Typing “shitty catgirl picture” into an AI image generator is exactly as much art as me typing “shitty catgirl picture” into this comment box. Which we’ll agree is not the same as actually drawing a shitty catgirl picture.

    AI gen fans will sometimes try to say that adding all their extra keywords and specifying things exactly is an artistic skill, but this is exactly the same process as typing “black_sweater gray_jacket hair_behind_ear looking_down male_focus” into gelbooru. Sure the picture you find by doing that on a booru is art, but you didn’t make it.

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      typing “black_sweater gray_jacket hair_behind_ear looking_down male_focus” into gelbooru

      oh my fucking god that’s genuinely impressive lmao

    • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      Barely related, if at all, but also, trying to narrow in on a desirable result by refining the prompt over multiple turns is like playing a slot machine, just spinning the thingie with unpredictable reward timing / unreliable success.

      It’s just being a gacha consumer while soothing yourself with the story that you’re Doing Art.

      But doing art isn’t like that unless maybe you’re CIA darling Jackson Pollock.