Now, obviously there's a problem with various sites being overrun by AI slop, but that's ultimately their fault for not imposing basic quality control, and not an argument for Total AI Death.
@ChristiJunior I dunno I feel like I’m in the minority, I mostly hate it. Most gallery sites are overrun like you said, and even with a tag or something it still slips through. And I just know it’s not genuine. Even if there’s a ton of retard gay artists on twitter making 80% of the art we consume I still feel the effort people put in the art. Even if the AI stuff is infilled or touched up or whatever it still feels effortless. It’s like going to a generic bar and even if the food is like kind of base-level tasty you can still tell it’s just freezer food from Sysco. Like most AI anime pics, even the ones that get touched up, still look like it’s a scraped amalgamation of top-10 Pixiv artists to me. But that may just be my brain addled with hentai for like the last 20 years, I’m really tuned into it. Even if it isn’t technically bad, when I notice art is AI I just kind of disregard it instantly.
And I fuck around locally with it like all the time too. There are some artists who are gone forever or just don’t make shit often enough and I can still get a taste of their style with situations I specifically like if I generate it on my own. But I still can’t shake the novelty and not-realness of it to me. It will never truly be their art, it’s always not perfect. Maybe it will be someday but if I know it isn’t genuine it will not ever be the same as something genuine.
