My friend once said that East Coast is not polite but kind, and West Coast is polite but not kind

I hate everything

I pay in cash as much as possible because fuck the card companies making money off of every transaction and fuck people tracking my spending habits

Except it’s not made properly. I’m not even talking about the wonky hands and bad design choices. If you didn’t make it then yeah, it’s not from you, which is the whole point.

You’re so focused on the end product you don’t care what’s being stolen from you.

If you have the ability to hold a pencil you can do art. I’m not saying everyone can do everything but art is a thing ask humans are capable of making and should be encouraged to do so with their own hands. Or feet or mouths or whatever.

Everyone can sing. Even if they sing badly that’s at least their own voice, and no one is fooled into thinking they are singing when they hit play on their phone, so why think someone’s an artist when they get a computer to make an image?

I’m telling you that “artist talent” is literally just when someone likes drawing enough they keep going even when they aren’t at the level they want to be and they practice it. Anyone can be an artist, and anyone can be a good artist, if they put in the effort to try. Even you.

If only you were making your vision. You are simply getting a computer to do it.

I’ve said it before, AI destroys the creative process, it doesn’t enhance it. Making the mistakes and choices are essential to you expressing yourself. Even if it’s flawed.

It’s regrettable that you only care about the end result, and feel like you’re incapable of getting where you want with your art. If you genuinely wanted to learn to draw I have suggestions on what to actually do.

Nah, it’s not a debate or trolling. You’re just, you know, wrong.

They don’t decide what a new word is, just document usage. And if it gets used enough, well…

Heh, AI is about as much of a tool as a drive through window is to cooking. You aren’t making anything, you’re not part of the process, you’re having a computer copy someone else’s choices and spill it out for you. This isn’t like a camera where people make choices with lenses, lighting and framing, this is you giving up your creative agency because you want a picture and don’t care how you got it.

Ai images aren’t art, and it’s sad that you think they are.

Art does not take gift. The myth of the naturally talented artist needs to die because that’s never been true. It takes effort, like you said, but it does NOT take courses and classes, especially in the modern world. There’s everything you need to learn right there on the Internet and in books. You just have to try.

And that’s the thing, you used to try and know that it was fun to make stuff, but at some point you wanted to make something that looked good and didn’t have the skill for it, so you gave up instead of having fun with it anyway.

But here’s the thing you forgot: the process. When you draw, you make choices. Where to put sister and brother, there to put the sun, how many windows are in your house, etc. The choices being made while making art are where you actually get creative. That’s where the happy accidents happen or the changes you decide on. It’s where the actual express happens, between wanting the picture and having the picture.

AI eliminates that crucial step. It eliminates choice. It makes those choices for you, cribbing notes off of other people’s choices, not yours.

So no, it doesn’t communicate anyone’s voice. Ai repeats static based off of other people’s voices and choices, not yours.

It’s very sad and somewhat indicative of our society that you only care about the finished product, and not the part that actually nourishes you.

That’s really sad that you think that way and telling that you missed the point.

If you hand make something for your game, during the creation process you’ll have a hydra moment and make something different than your initial idea. If you just use AI then you stay with that initial idea and don’t explore it. So yeah, it does take away from your creativity and you don’t even realize it.

I guarantee you that if you actually made something yourself for your campaign your players would like it much more than the AI stuff.

Because the big secret of artists? Stuff never turns out as good as it was in your head. Not once. And it’s not supposed to.

Don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back for putting an order in at the restaurant. That chef would make something with or without you.

Lmao about you trying to compare ai prompters to Frank Lloyd Write, when he actually did the design work and you can’t.

Oh, sorry, you’re right, prompters never say they drew something, they just claim to be artists when they clearly aren’t. Should’ve figured you’d nitpick word choices it’s about the only think you’re capable of.

Cool if the context doesn’t matter I’ll sell you a replica of the state of David for the price of the original!

One of the best minis in a game I was in that was ever used was a hydra made out of paper, and when we killed a head, the dm pulled one out of the slots and it was a bloody stump drawn at the base of the neck. Everyone at the table flipped their shit, it was awesome.

If the dm just used ai to make something, that wouldn’t have happened. It would’ve been disappointing to find out if was an ai image for the players, and he wouldn’t have made that fun memory.

AI takes away potential in more ways than one.

There have been painters who are blind who made great paintings. People without hands who learned how to paint with their feet.

Art was already accessable to everyone, ai drones say that it wasn’t to feel better.

Yeah but we don’t say “I made these cookies” when all we did was hand someone the recipe, now do we?

No, because telling someone or something to make something doesn’t mean we get to say we made it.

Are you the type of person who pretends you made a cheeseburger when you got it from a drive though window? Because that’s what you sound like.

Prompters don’t make decisions in the piece, the algorithm generated stuff and if the prompter doesn’t like it, then they prompt again. No choices made.

It’s like how you all use the same words when someone disagrees with you, “luddite” and “gatekeeping”. You can’t really think for yourself so your regurgitate what someone else wrote.

In photography, the photographer makes choices using lenses, lighting, framing and so on to make choices about how the image is created.

With Photoshop, the digital artist uses the tools to create and manipulate the image, making choices about how the image is created.

With AI, the prompter tells the computer what they want and no choices are made. The computer generates things with an algorithm and that’s it. The prompter doesn’t choose anything, they just make another prompt.

So yeah, prompters will never be artists, and I have more respect for a kid doodling in the dirt with a stick because they at least are making choices and making something.

It’s not gatekeeping, you’re just simply not making art, and no, you can’t sit with us.

I just checked and yeah, your comment didn’t say anything about birth control options for men and only talked about the negative effects of the pill.

So you see why one would think that you were trying to say that the birth control pill is a bad thing and that we should remove it.