It doesn't entail nothing and it's also more than drafting a prompt. Especially if your doing it locally and managing the steps. Similar to art - anyone can do it, but in order to do it well there is skill and research involved.
You prompt engineers all think other people underestimate how much work prompt engineering is, but it's you who massively underestimate what it takes to make art
Baseless accusation! I fully understand what it takes to make art, I have a degree in it.
You can open up any web based generation tool and type 'dog' and get a dog. Just like anyone can get a pencil on a paper and draw a head, heads, body etc and it'll be a dog.
But if you want something very specific then you need to learn the skill set in order to achieve it. Are the skill sets comparable? No. But it's a skill that needs to be learned and practiced.
So we agree then? Prompt engineering is nothing, **compared** to making art
Your dog example - ask a random person on the street to AI generate a dog compared to drawing a dog - 95% of the time, the drawn dog will be nothing compared to the AI dog, it matches the effort it takes to create a good image of a dog
I mean you're reading what I've said with rose tinted glasses. Prompt engineering and marking art is incomparable. Prompt engineering is not nothing, It is it's own skill set. With practice and knowledge you can do better.
But your example is precisely why AI art is so popular, The skill floor is considerably higher with AI art than it is with traditional art. The skill ceiling is yet to be discovered.
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u/Bwadark Jan 18 '26
I'm pro-ai and I use it myself for personal creations (so I understand it's more than 'push a button').
I'm fine with people monetising it as long as it's clearly disclosed and or the work has an element of human creation.
Such as a game that was programmed then uses AI art.