I would rather just learn to draw than constantly write different text until it looks good
Drawing isn't hard, you know
Drawing isn't hard, you know
SD will never compare to the power of pencil and paper imo. Drawing is an essential skill for any visual artist not just for mechanics but for developing style, taste, and true understanding of the world around you visually.
I recommend Freehand Figure Drawing for Illustrators as a good starting point (along with some beginner art lessons). It won't take 1k hours before you see results. It's also fun!
Why do I want to avoid that reliance, other than to be smug to the nerds? And as far as general self-satisfaction, let's assume I would rather master a different skill with the time it would take.
Especially because that training cost only has to be done once, so on a per-person basis it beats learning to draw by a lot.
If you said something about flexibility and specificity of what you can create I could get behind that, but I think the arguments you're making are very unconvincing.
It works surprisingly well.
If drawing was that easy, no one would worry about disruption from AI image generators, because everyone who wanted images would be knocking them out by hand, not paying people for them, so there’d be nothing to disrupt.
Therefore, I would say most people hyped for SD and friends are the capitalists and consumers of the art world - not the creators.
Repeating an assertion more times doesn’t make it true.
> If you want to create, you can and will learn to draw.
“Drawing”, even when it comes to imagery, is far from the only form of creation, and, even if it were, will is not determinative of capacity.
But, yeah, I mean, people have said similar things about basically evey new means of creation ever.
No, the fact that something is made with it makes it creation. Imagination makes it creative, on top of being creation.
The problem I see here is you are trying to insert your moral/aesthetic judgement of the quality/value of the mechanism/process of creation into the objective description of whether creation is happening, probably because you have subscribed to a worldview which valorizes creation and denigrates consumption so accepting something you don’t want valorized as “creation” is incompatible with that worldview.
You can just say you don't like Generative AI and wish people wouldn’t use it. You don’t need to declare that creating things with it isn’t creation to try to mask your (valid as any other) aesthetic preference in a very silly circumlocution designed to resemble an objective description, albeit a patently self-contradictory one.