>>11358524

I'm honestly not a fan of AI art as a ... "realistic entity", because I know what the end game is, ultimately devaluing the very artists that enable this technology in the first place and destroying any opportunity for new, small artists to get a foothold.

But as a technology, it's neat, it's fun to play with. I gen for my own uses and I've contributed to these threads, as long as it's just for personal consumption and free.

At the same time, I have kind of mixed feelings because as someone who's spent thousands of dollars on commissions from actual artists, they're also so fucking hit-or-miss that the inherent randomness of an AI gen isn't much different. The number of times I've forked over a few hundred dollars, given my description with references and gotten back something that was... Absolutely not what I wanted, but you can't just go "do it again" because that's a human who spent hours of their life on this, it's a sort of frustrating all on its own.

tl;dr I guess is just, I wish we lived in a different world where we could play with this technology without it eventually ending up hurting anyone.