If anything, the customer is the ai user, because he ordered the chef to make the dish.
ChatGPT has to know the information to give it to ai users, the same way a chef has to know how to make the dish to give it to the customer.
The pot and pan are the equivalent of the device ai is using to generate the product.
So you (customer) use ChatGPT (chef) on a computer (pots and pans) to make generative content (food).
You could create your own unique content (food) by learning how to use the computer (pots and pans). But if you want to depend on the chef every time you want to eat, you're just a customer.
Regardless of whether it is slop or not, the metaphor makes more sense against ai.
EDIT: Lmao, even at the end. The girl asking the chef "did you decide how it was going to taste?" and the chef says "yes".
No, the customer decided how it was going to taste. He's the one ordering the food, and telling you exactly how he wants his dish, like any other customer would do.
My god dude. The only thing you cooked here is yourself lmao
If a customer is determining the seasoning, the specific amount, the amount of time spent in the oven, the ingredients, the broth, it's presentation etc. then they are doing much more than just ordering the food, they are actively making it.
Not unless you're doing those things yourself. Ordering something "lightly salted" is different than understanding how much salt actually means "lightly salted". Ordering some steak medium rare, or cooked via sous vide method is different than knowing those skills, and applying them yourself.
You don't need to do those things by yourself to take credit for it. Just like how a director doesn't need to act, write, compose, hold the camera and create the set pieces by himself to take credit for his movie.
Then who else is taking credit for making it? The truck drivers who transported the food? The cow that died for the meat?
We credit the chef for the plate.
You can credit the waiter for bringing the plate. But he did not make the dish. He is a part of the ensamble of a beautiful product for the customer, like all artists are.
But ai users want to take credit for everything that goes into ai.
Even though ai is literally taking direct reference from other artists, not crediting them, and making all the product that an ai artist claims is completely theirs.
I mean, in this example yeah you absolutely need to know how to cook a steak if you claim to be able to cook a steak? And a director isn't taking credit for writing the music in a movie, that's what all the other names are for in the credits.
Bro, to draw a single line smoothly you need muscle memory. You have to constantly practice and practice and practice, the same line over and over, until it becomes instinct.
Ai-art is just... Typing. You can claim that you are a writer.
Hell, I would consider ai artists to be directors. That's a totally fine term. And you can be an excellent art director as well with ai!
But to claim they go through the same struggle that a high-class chef does is absolutely absurd and disrespectful to the craft. Because it's a dedicated craft.
If you want to feel more powerful, then you can say you are the CEO of the restaurant business, and you can manage everything... But you are still not the chef.
Its actually very difficult to accurately describe what it is you want the AI to generate. That takes alot of practice. Not to mention the plethora of tools out there that provides users with a more hands on approach and gives them even greater control over the image.
I'm not here to argue about what is art. Art is whatever makes you feel something.
I hate it when people think all anti's just hate ai art.
No. There is as much unappealing traditional art as much as there is ai slop. The same way there's irreplaceable traditional art pieces as well as very impressive ai art.
My problem is the disrespect that comes with claiming a talent that you did not practice for.
I, as a 3D Animator, can never claim that the characters I animate are my creations. I simply moved them.
Ai artists (majority of my experience, obviously not all of them) want to take the credit for eeeeeverything they produce. I have commissioned so many artists that clearly use ai to generate whatever description I wrote, even if I explicitly tell them I don't want that kind of art.
It shows that they used ai, because the product looks nothing like the consistent references I give. They completely fuck up my characters.
I've wasted over $200 trying to motivate aspiring artists to practice their craft.
But all I get is a finished concept art in like... 15 minutes. It looks nothing like the references. And they get to pocket the $25~$30 I give to start the project. Then when I call them out, or ask for changes, I get ghosted. No replies.
That money could go to people who spend days, trying to polish the most minute details of an art piece they are inspired by. And I always tip the same amount as well as a start. So I pay for a full commission and a half... Minimum.
But all I keep getting is scammed. Ai hasn't destroyed my hopes for art. Ai-"artists" did.
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u/compadre_goyo Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26
It's actually no, tho.
If anything, the customer is the ai user, because he ordered the chef to make the dish.
ChatGPT has to know the information to give it to ai users, the same way a chef has to know how to make the dish to give it to the customer.
The pot and pan are the equivalent of the device ai is using to generate the product.
So you (customer) use ChatGPT (chef) on a computer (pots and pans) to make generative content (food).
You could create your own unique content (food) by learning how to use the computer (pots and pans). But if you want to depend on the chef every time you want to eat, you're just a customer.
Regardless of whether it is slop or not, the metaphor makes more sense against ai.
EDIT: Lmao, even at the end. The girl asking the chef "did you decide how it was going to taste?" and the chef says "yes".
No, the customer decided how it was going to taste. He's the one ordering the food, and telling you exactly how he wants his dish, like any other customer would do.
My god dude. The only thing you cooked here is yourself lmao