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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[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 25 points 2 days ago

at least for me, the joy of art is in the process. if you want to replace personal development with a slot machine, feel free i guess. every artistic or musical piece that I make leaves an imprint in my mind and manifests a physical object or vibration in the real world. you could say that AI can take your desire and manifest it, but without the internal struggle between your imagination and the medium the art won't change anything about how you see or understand the world. you might even miss getting a deeper look into what your actual desires / dreams are / mean.