Spending 100+ hours trying to coax the computer to produce the work you want isn't impressive. The idea that there is some huge amount of skill and theory behind writing prompts is absurd. It's not as though he spent 100+ hours crafting the perfect prompt with his skill and theory and the results were perfect first try. Be real: He spent 100+ hours writing dozens, perhaps hundreds of prompts, until it spat out the result he wanted. Prompting is a guess and test process, not a skill. Anyone claiming otherwise is deluded

I will never respect "prompters" as artists. No one should. A shallow dismissal is all they deserve

Doubling down on your ignorance, nice. It's refreshing to see that ignorance, intolerance and shitting on people's work becomes fashionable again. I hope this trend continues.

Photographers are not artists btw. They just point a lens and press a button. Anyone can do that, no skill required. I will never respect them.

When someone writes prompts to commission a human artist to create a painting, we never even remotely consider them an artist

Why should we consider someone an artist when they write prompts to a computer to have it create paintings? It's clear that the painting is not being created by them

Continuing to draw this false equivalence between prompting and photography is not helping you. And simply replacing words in what I'm saying, mad-libs style, to parrot back to me, is not the own you think it is

lol, "helping me", "the own". You're the ignorant idiot here. It's exactly the amount of effort you deserve. Learn some self-awareness.