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I've become a massive hypocrit...
5 months ago
So, I make it no secret I've been using ChatGPT to assist me with some of my writing; entirely proofreading and minor edits. I do not, and will not ever, use it to write the stories for me. I have no right to call myself an author if it is not by my hand I bring my stories to life.
However... I've also been playing around with image generation. Trying to just get some ideas that I've never been able to afford to commission - or at least, certainly haven't over the last couple of years. Ever since AI in general - especially AI Art, started becoming so commonplace it was appearing everywhere, I resented it. I wanted to see it crash and burn... So that real artists - REAL talent, would never be sidelined.
Yet tonight, while playing around with image generation, I succeeded in creating the best image of my werewolf character, Asya, that I've ever seen; link here, to a google doc showing her. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/.....it?usp=sharing
The amount any artists here would charge for this quality and detail would be... Staggering, on my current budget, yet I was able to do it with a character ref and a few detailed descriptions, and there she is. While I've seen AI Art can't remain consistent enough for comic strips... The fact that doing this is so easy - and so inexpensive - I literally paid NOTHING for this, has made me realize it's already too late... I've already fallen into the trap...
To all FA artists... I'm sorry... I want to support art by the hands of talented creators... But now...
Now I don't know what to think anymore...
However... I've also been playing around with image generation. Trying to just get some ideas that I've never been able to afford to commission - or at least, certainly haven't over the last couple of years. Ever since AI in general - especially AI Art, started becoming so commonplace it was appearing everywhere, I resented it. I wanted to see it crash and burn... So that real artists - REAL talent, would never be sidelined.
Yet tonight, while playing around with image generation, I succeeded in creating the best image of my werewolf character, Asya, that I've ever seen; link here, to a google doc showing her. https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/.....it?usp=sharing
The amount any artists here would charge for this quality and detail would be... Staggering, on my current budget, yet I was able to do it with a character ref and a few detailed descriptions, and there she is. While I've seen AI Art can't remain consistent enough for comic strips... The fact that doing this is so easy - and so inexpensive - I literally paid NOTHING for this, has made me realize it's already too late... I've already fallen into the trap...
To all FA artists... I'm sorry... I want to support art by the hands of talented creators... But now...
Now I don't know what to think anymore...
However, I won't have AI touch anything of mine in any capacity, and I won't support it in any form, possibly ever. Right now I just don't trust it.
You will quickly find an infuriating wall of AI not being able to do specific things right. It can do great generic art. But specific things? That's where you go back to the physical artists. Group images are especially notorious to fail with AI.
On the bright side, you can get all your kinks out with AI art. And do quick works with it at a fraction of the cost and wait time you normally had to put in.