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HawkZombie128 days ago(+4)

People don't lack talent, they lack drive and discipline. No one is just born being able to create perfect art. Some are more apt certainly, but the only thing keeping anyone from being an artist (or writer or any other creative endeavors) is time, practice, and patience.

AI is a tool, not a replacement. And this is ignoring that gen AI is made from thousands of stolen works. RPG Maker is a tool as well, yes, but it's not made on the backs of thousands of programmers whose works were stolen. There's no such thing as programming talent. You either choose to learn it or don't. Time and dedication. It always comes back down to time and dedication. Gen AI is a cancer on the creative world and as an artist yourself I really find your acceptance of it to be disappointing. You're honestly ok with your works being stolen so someone else can make "art" because they were too lazy to try or too cheap to pay?

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Aesica128 days ago(+1)

See that’s the thing. I don’t see it as “stealing.” When I tried to teach myself to draw, I picked some styles I liked and tried to copy those artists’ styles. I looked at their stuff, practiced, and in the end, produced similar (but inferior) content mimicking those styles. Generative AI is the same concept, but on a much larger scale. AI isn’t going to create an outright copy of someone’s art. It creates something based on the prompt its given with a similar style.

And you’re right, it is a tool rather than a replacement. I can use it to whip up a concept for a character quite easily, but human artists still have several edges that they had better take advantage of while they can:

  1. AI is bad at doing human interaction/multiple people in a scene, etc.
  2. AI can’t fine tune things. “Oh you want that character’s belt to be different? Okay let me completely redraw it with a bunch of other things different as well.”
  3. AI goes full stupid on some things. I tried to createa water mage concept but it kept giving her elf ears, no matter what.
  4. NSFW content. I mean AI can do this, but its far less accessible since nearly all of the freely available ones block it.

I think at the very core of all this, artists are simply just afraid of being replaced by AI. The truly good ones will continue to find ways to stand out instead of relying on a style that’s “generic anime.”

Ultimately, AI is inevitable, so why don’t people work with it rather than against it?

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