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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[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

My 3070/5900 rig runs stable diffusion well enough. The barrier to entry is much more gaming pc than it is server farm but I still agree with the sentiment and don’t agree with the idea that AI makes are accessible. It makes image generation more accessible but there’s a billion tools for tracing that already made shit pretty accessible.