• dill@lemmy.one
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      52
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      There are levels to everything. People have a very shallow understanding of how these tools work.

      Some ai art is low effort.
      Some ai art is extremely involved.

      • Stumblinbear
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        21
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        It can often take longer to get what you want out of it than it would’ve to have just drawn it. I’ve spent 8 or 9 hours fiddling with inputs and settings for a piece and it still didn’t come out as good as it would have if I had commissioned an artist.

        I’ve been using it to get “close” then using it as a reference when commissioning things

        • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Yes. I also think that’s how it is. If you want to generate something meaningful, something that contributes something deep, it is quite a lot of effort. You need to do the prompt engineering, generate a few hundred images. Skim through them and find the most promising ones, then edit them. Maybe combine more than one or put it back into the AI to get the right amount of limbs and fingers. And the lighting, background etc right.

          You can just do one-shot, generate anything and upload it to the internet. But it wouldn’t be of the same value. But it works like this for anything. I can take a photo of something. Somebody else can have their photos printed on a magazine or do an exhibition. It’s a difference in skills and effort. Taking artistic photographs probably also takes some time and effort. You can ask the same question with that. Are photographs art? It depends. For other meanings of ‘OC’: Sure. The generated output is unique and you created it.

    • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      That’s a great analogy. TV dinners, while presentable at first glance, are both low effort and not that great.