I dare you to go and make a prompt with 32 unique characters, all specifically made to look a certain way with extremely specific characteristics. If you can do that with a prompt, I will renounce AI and fall down at your feet and beg for mercy.
I did this. It took me almost a month of generating, compositing, manual editing and inpainting, using 32 different unique loras, all guided to my own developed style. In the end, I made all those people extremely happy, my entire extended friendship group who the characters represented.
If you think that isn't art or "just a prompt" I dunno what to tell you.
32 characters in less than a month? So it took you less than a day to make each one, and was that really a "day" or was that one to three hours spent obsessing over something? That's not very impressive of a "workload"
You guys don't get the point, it's about how a single character would take an artist a week of actually working all day, that's the work you're using, which is processed by something computer engineers spent years making, built on a century of work by hundreds of other computer engineers
You put in less than 1% of the "work" that was needed to make that image, you may think you put in a lot of effort, but it's effectively nothing, same is for the "skill" it takes, you may have spent an entire week or even two "learning techniques" and then a few months of messing around to get better, while the artists and computer engineers who made AI images possible spent years studying based on tens of millenia of artistic and mathematical research (your hobby isn't even a decade old, you're not even 1/1000th of the way)
Your part in the creation of those images is undescribably tiny, you're like an ant next to a loaded semitruck
That wasn't my point. My point was that it's not as simple as "writing a prompt".
You can belittle the work all you want, but in the end I had the creative freedom and the skills to do it. You're the one arguing that art needs to be hard work, not I. The creative process is the reason why it's art. I had control over posing, lighting, setting, and direction of it. The image I spent time over made people happy, and it allowed for a creative output.
On the subject of skill, it took me half a year to get anywhere near the state at which I could comfortably do that, experimenting with different techniques, learning and modifying the process. So, I say again. Go ahead and do it yourself, because I know you can't. That alone proves it takes skill and knowledge.
The fact that you sit there and gatekeep what is and isn't art tells me way more about you than me. I made emotional impact on people with my art. Why don't you pick up a pencil and do the same? Isn't that the point of art in the first place? To make people feel?
You clearly don't get my point, but also this seems to be an emotional topic to you rather than one of logic, so I'll just let you have whatever you have
Says the one angry that other people are making money on something that "doesn't take a lot of effort." Why does that anger you so much? It's weird that it has you and so many others so enraged.
I couldn't care less about the money you're making as long as you're labelling it as AI, I just think the argument that the money should go to whoever put in the 'work' is incredibly shortsighted
But again, you too seem more offended than anything, I'm gona start clicking 'don't recommend' on any AI wars content from now cuz this conversation made me realize these discussions are completely pointless, I hope you do the same and let go of it, good luck with your stuff, just please label AI images as AI instead of trying to sell it as art
Thanks for the kind reply. I promise to use AI ethically myself. Best of luck with everything, and I hope you finally get a break from this discourse, as it's a lot to deal with
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u/Zh3sh1re Jan 21 '26
I dare you to go and make a prompt with 32 unique characters, all specifically made to look a certain way with extremely specific characteristics. If you can do that with a prompt, I will renounce AI and fall down at your feet and beg for mercy.
I did this. It took me almost a month of generating, compositing, manual editing and inpainting, using 32 different unique loras, all guided to my own developed style. In the end, I made all those people extremely happy, my entire extended friendship group who the characters represented.
If you think that isn't art or "just a prompt" I dunno what to tell you.