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i just dont get how these people who type some bullshit into chatgpt actually think and feel like they’re creating something
the whole fun of art is the process and bringing everything together. knowing you saw some shit in your head and created it. what satisfaction could ai “art” bring its “creators” other than maybe tricking dumb old people who dont understand “ai” into thinking they have talent
Theoretically the tools available with locally hosted models can be used alongside traditional compositing and sketching to mesh component bits together and clean up technical problems that they don't have the skills to address themselves, but midjourney is a fucking discord gacha bot where you pay to do image generation pulls. That person did not make anything, they paid midjourney to generate nonsense until they found something they liked.
And I say "theoretically" someone can use these tools this way because I have seen it myself, but even the hobbyist community around local image generation is mostly concerned with making the "generate image" gacha pulls work better instead of doing anything at all for themselves. Which kind of makes sense: it's a slot machine, they're building a private slot machine where they press the button and get dopamine and they just keep pressing the dopamine button and any effort they invest is going to be in trying to make the dopamine button tastier and more rewarding. They're addicted to it, in other words.
i use a local stable diffusion to generate reference myself
i've found i draw more often now because of it as i can spend a couple minutes generating the reference images then get straight into sketching, instead of spending ages searching for a good collection of refs and getting distracted until the urge to draw dies