12-04-2025, 12:45 PM
(12-04-2025, 12:33 PM)Aragorn Wrote: No matter how impressive the technology may be, you can always tell when it's AI and it's an instant turn off for me. Be it in games, stand alone art, ads - i'm squarely in the camp of AI being theft that exploits the work of artists and nothing can really change that.
The tools are getting better and better. In an ideal world, they can probably be incorporated into an artist's workstream in an ethical way. But the reality is its biggest proponents tend to be people who have spent years and years pretending as if art isn't *real* work and will now scream off the rooftops that this is democratization and accessibility.
I do not disagree.
The people that use AI art properly you wont even notice they used it. What's frustrating is when art in general is now less appreciated because everyone assumes it's AI or that AI could do it in seconds so why should I care about your work? Like this for example...
If I had seen that 5 or 6 years ago on youtube, I'd have been gushing all over it, but now it's only mildly impressive to me because I don't know what work and thought dude put in versus what was just a 2 second prompt because AI can do everything you see and hear on screen.
I had to ask my friend what he actually did and he told me he edited the facebook video above himself and it's just the images, if he had said he got ChatGPT to prompt all of that, I would've believed him.
