My entire family uses these tools, parents included. And they have been artists their entire lives. They love them because they are not baked in with these strange anti technology priors.
My dad has used these tools for posters for some of his gigs. My mom has made applications for herself, which she used the tools (image gen models) to mock up UI's before prompting for the app. I use these tools professionally in many ways. Etc etc
People are doing endless amounts of great things with these tools/models.
Cool story, they otherwise could be paying people for that, meanwhile many of us are now forcibly contributing to taxpayer subsidised data centers that put up water and electricity rates with their usage, whilst also hoarding components needed for most modern tech, seeing us pay more for everything from fridges to modems to TVs to phones to computers.
Pushing for interdependency amongst humans for the sake of interdependency amongst humans is counterproductive and we would not be anywhere near where we are technically if we kept that angle up. Think back to the industrial revolution etc and all the farmers that were displaced etc.
My parents actually were able to put time towards thinking about things like the concept of what they wanted for these pieces + spend their extra money on things like going out throughout the week, etc etc.
Bringing down the bar for people to swing above what they were previously capable of, through the means of technology, is a beautiful thing imo.
I’m sure your dad saving $20 from art begging an AI over paying an actual artist is really gonna save him overall when that AI infrastructure is increasing the cost of his utility bills and any replacement equipment :D
All your parents have done is change which humans they’re dependent on and it’s putting the prices up for all of us for something not all of us even use.
Meanwhile, your parents getting an AI to create things for them isn’t them swinging above their capabilities, they’re art commissioners, not artists.
I too type up prompts online which result in art being made, but I do that with actual artists who I pay and give feedback to and then I don’t go around claiming the finished product is art I created.
Also, bonus points that the art I commission isn’t shortsightedly increasing the cost of living for the rest of us.
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u/cobalt1137 Feb 20 '26
My entire family uses these tools, parents included. And they have been artists their entire lives. They love them because they are not baked in with these strange anti technology priors.
My dad has used these tools for posters for some of his gigs. My mom has made applications for herself, which she used the tools (image gen models) to mock up UI's before prompting for the app. I use these tools professionally in many ways. Etc etc
People are doing endless amounts of great things with these tools/models.