Like it’s this amazing tool that can literally whip believable looking people from a soup of words but your average goon cave troll focuses on, “elf, boobs, BIG BOOBS, glossy, plastic look, anime, ANIME STYLE, cinematic, marvel, DCU, dead eyes, gaudy colors, vaporwave” and calls it a day.
I was playing around with some face styles and prompting in stuff like people from different ethnicities and countries and it was spitting back some really good portraits. Then I went and looked in the gallery and it was deviantart tier slop. Not to mention people mistaking the chat section for a prompt and putting in literal cp :yea: I feel icky now.
This is a great analysis, and something I’ve failed to properly articulate in the past. And something I’ve tried and failed to explain to people about any potential future artists. It gives the illusion of creativity without the actual need to work on your creativity as a skill, it just cuts out all the self-actualising parts of doing art, and while I can’t speak for others, self-actualisation is one of the main reasons I do art at all.
I know using the term “soulless” is the best way to summon the AI bros to “umm acktually” their way into derailing a conversation, but AI is soulless, not just in the sense of it having no deeper meaning, but in the sense of it actively discouraging people who use it from ever thinking about deeper meaning and creativity. I think this might be part of the source of OP’s problem, it encourages the most vapid “creativity” possible, and actively discourages anything genuinely unique or original. I hope my ramble is making sense.