But they conveniently leave out that it costs money to do anything with AI. It's more like "open to anyone with a credit card." The vast majority of people don't have computers powerful enough to run generative AI models locally, and even then, server farms with a billion GPUs will always produce better results

This means that people have to rely on corporate platforms where you buy tokens that you use to get pulls at the various AI slop slot machines, hoping you get something decent. The mechanics more closely resemble a gacha game than any kind of artistic process

By contrast, learning how to draw, animate or make 3D models costs nothing. There's free tutorials and tools everywhere, and you can also just pirate commercial ones if you want

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[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For the smarties saying you can run it on a phone, a shitfuck scratched phone costs like 20 dollars at minimum and you're going for hundreds if you want an actually usable phone, a pencil and some sheets of paper cost way less than that

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

dirt and a stick are free but people want to make something that looks like their intent and a ton of us are not capable of that. i don't think the people writing ai prompts are meaningfully making anything but they're getting output that looks like something and if they're lucky it has the correct number of fingers.

[–] la_tasalana_intissari_mata@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago

my point is that having a phone isn't open to everyone, and especially running a whatever AI prompter thing, considering the third world exists, a phone costs a salary where I live, and good luck figuring out anything if you don't speak english.