But they conveniently leave out that it costs money to do anything with AI. It’s more like “open to anyone with a credit card.” The vast majority of people don’t have computers powerful enough to run generative AI models locally, and even then, server farms with a billion GPUs will always produce better results

This means that people have to rely on corporate platforms where you buy tokens that you use to get pulls at the various AI slop slot machines, hoping you get something decent. The mechanics more closely resemble a gacha game than any kind of artistic process

By contrast, learning how to draw, animate or make 3D models costs nothing. There’s free tutorials and tools everywhere, and you can also just pirate commercial ones if you want

  • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I mean, yeah this true not everyone can make art up to their desired standards. But everyone can still make art, there’s tons of different genres and styles of art, all humans are gonna have the ability to engage with some of them. Maybe not to the level they’ll become famous for it but they can do it.

    Edit: to provide a personal example, I suck at drawing and painting but I used to do actual paper collage art, which doesn’t require you make any images yourself but is instead about the composition of other premade images. With pretty good results.

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      61·
      4 days ago

      but i don’t want to cure cancer, i want to turn people into dinosaurs.

      art is in some ways a uselessly broad category, people don’t want to make things generically, they want to make something more specific than that, it does no good to tell me to go make a sandcastle because i can actually physically do that to some extent when my creative desire is for something else.

      • SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        91·
        4 days ago

        Okay, but then their frustration isn’t that “art is inaccessible” it’s that they can’t visually represent images in their head to a level they’d deem impressive.

        Which is frustrating I guess when you want to make a nice looking avatar for your discord DND game, but you aren’t being denied access to anything. Also there’s millions of fantasy concept art pics for free out there you can probs find something nice looking for you kitsune rogue.