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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[–] Des@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

yeah i think there's some ADHD thing that short circuits the connection between my mind image and my fingies

and i doodled and drew for years up until my late teens. also took tons of classes, including drawing classes in college.

luckily I read a lot and apparently could write well (back then at least) and did that instead. but I was always envious of people that can just do the whole "my hand is a printer connected to my brain".