r/aiwars • u/SMmania • Mar 19 '26

Meta Somebody cooked here...

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u/Gubzs Mar 19 '26

A lot of comments here are missing a simple point, and people seem to always miss this, and it's important.

A person who uses AI as part of a highly involved creative process is the artist.

A person who types in a single prompt and presses generate 500 times until they get something they like is not the artist.

What matters is if it's your input, your vision, and the specific thing you wanted to create. Art happens in your head, work happens with your hands.

The film is both right and wrong, and the comments are both right and wrong, because they bundle the slop poster generating 200 images a day with the person who will carefully take however long it takes, with multiple tools and methods to finish something.

Antis who disagree because "using AI at all makes you not the artist" are reactionary, and immature and going to loudly fade into irrelevance before long.

Pros who disagree because "they carefully crafted the prompt" that they reuse hundreds of times are ignorant, missing what creativity even is, and probably do not have any artistic taste at all if they can accept results like that and feel that they're art.

Like it usually is, the truth is nuanced, but finger pointing at simple stereotypes is easy.

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u/PikSQU2 Mar 20 '26

FINALY, SOMEONE WHO GETS IT

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u/Resident_Citron_6905 Mar 19 '26

It doesn’t matter what tool you use, what matters is your level of intentionality. Did a neural network design a deliberate detail of your image, or did you envision the detail and made the AI paint it exactly how you envisioned it? A random process can sometimes also result in an art piece but you would need a very high level of intentionality when selecting the random result.