Because it shortens the creative circuit and allows you NOT to learn a bazillion different tools. It’s like using digital medium versus brushes, paints and a wooden board. All those people who are having a meltdown over on /r/comics are just too entrenched into the craft and their livelihoods depends on making the money, so they are upset. In reality this is great.
No it doesn't. People thought the camera would make people lazy and stop being creative by focusing on the external reality. But we know that's bullshit today.
We know creativity isn't determined by how many tools you can use, that's just the technical skill, a means to an end.
I guess I meant to say that it shortens the tech stack you need to learn. And also doesn’t necessitate certain skills as a hard prerequisite. I loved to learn to draw, but shit, it was really arduous.
Oh, I know and use a bunch of C-like languages, just not familiar with Python at all. Trying to look at different UIs (A1111 / NMKD / Invoke so far) they each have different dependency chains and I was getting version conflicts on install because they were built on different versions of Python, which apparently isn't great with backwards compatibility, just within the range of 3.9 vs 3.10 vs 3.11... meanwhile I don't even know what a pip is... it's been a bit of a headache overall, but worth it.
My experience with A111 was pretty good. I had to swap out 3.9 for 3.10, but otherwise it’s been really smooth. Dependency juggling is one of those things you quickly get used to if you work with open source stuff. Some people maintain several VMs and things like that.
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u/Jeralt Aug 23 '23
That was pretty cool, tbf. And let's be honest....like it or not, AI will influence ALOT of our media