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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[–] tim_curry@hexbear.net 58 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (50 children)

Art was already open to anyone just pick up a fucking pencil

Edit: drawing all the talentless hacks out of the woodwork lol

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago (44 children)

i really hate this reasoning. when people say "i can't draw" they mean "i can't draw what I set out to draw" not that they can't make marks on a paper. People want to make what they have in their head, likely to a level of competence that would be appreciated by an audience beyond their mom, not some other thing that they physically can that will look bad to them and anyone else.

I also dispute OP's assumption that we can all learn to draw competently, i've tried on and off for years with various tutorials and programmes and my brain and hands just do not work that way.

[–] SovietBeerTruckOperator@hexbear.net 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

I mean, yeah this true not everyone can make art up to their desired standards. But everyone can still make art, there's tons of different genres and styles of art, all humans are gonna have the ability to engage with some of them. Maybe not to the level they'll become famous for it but they can do it.

Edit: to provide a personal example, I suck at drawing and painting but I used to do actual paper collage art, which doesn't require you make any images yourself but is instead about the composition of other premade images. With pretty good results.

[–] americanzgenozida@thelemmy.club 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Aw that's so kool <3 thanks for uploading

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