Now that AI has been around for a bit: what are your thoughts on it?
I still don't want to use it. Typing a text prompt feels more like googling an image than making art. That defeats the purpose for me.
I do also see how it could be a useful tool, though.
Would be interested to hear what others think. From a consumer side especially. Is it important to you that art is made by a human?
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@tabarchie I can always tell if art has been generated and it's a little annoying. I have only used it really as a quick novelty or for D&D characters that I can't find good pre-existing art for.
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Thats a very interesting outlook. Thanks for the detailed response!
Personally I'm all for technological advancements. AI art can only do waifus (minus fingers) at the moment, so the applications are quite limited (especially since it can only do one style so to speak). In a decade we should be able to see if the AI craze dies down or if they manage to actually imitate variety of styles with little mistakes/distortion in the final image. It however might be that we will never manage to achieve that and AI art will forever be second class waifu art/placeholder shit.
IF it will get better, it should revolutionize personal designs and art projects. The focus shifts away from creating the graphics to how to perfect their use. For example creating games will become easier when can offload the graphics creation to an AI and focus instead on how to create a cohesive art style for the project (and coding obviously). So in theory more "one man projects" can become successful rather than get stuck in a limbo when it comes to finishing the graphics.
IF it manages that, I as a consumer would be "just fine" consuming AI created art/graphics. Of course it would never surpass real handmade stuff, but like in other fields (furniture, car manufacturing, chemistry...) technological advancements have pushed handmade products under the "premium quality" label instead of making them obsolete. So AI art would be akin to IKEA furniture: Good for the masses to own something, but if the consumer has enough money they won't hesitate on getting the "real deal".