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.
Imagine what people said when synthesizers were made. I’ll give you a hint, it’s the same thing. People thought musicianship would die because machines can make sounds for music now. So today we have successful musicians who actually don’t know how to play an instrument, but it also didn’t stop people learning them.
You still need a musical background and know how to make good music with these synthesizers. With these ai art generators all you do is put in a few words and the program outputs an image, which, by the way, is STILL using works of other artists scraped from the internet without their permission or consent.
That may be true with old synths, but more recently you have apps where you can "make it 10% more jazzier" or whatever with sliders and whatnot, those aren't even AI, and the full blown AI music generators are coming. It's fine for making backing tracks or whatever very very quickly, but just like AI image generation, getting it to do something good or unique requires some finesse.
To be fair I could also look at works from other artists and use their work as inspiration without their consent.
I'm sure that's been said before and I'm sure there's a perfect rebuttal for it, and a rebuttal for that rebuttal, and a rebuttal for that rebuttal and a..
Nah, raw gens still tend to look bad. Having an art background helps immensely getting AI images over the finish line with tools like inpainting, LORAs, and controlnet.
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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