sn0w_monkie

I'm not surprised more and more art communities are banning AI images, 99% of them are dull and ugly. Definitely not something I would print out and hang on my wall. I tried playing around with these models, but I was too bored to bother futzing around with prompts to try and make something I liked.

But I have seen some cool things made using these models by creators who put more effort in than just writing a prompt to get back an image. I can definitely see how these tools can enhance human creativity but like most art the results are just bad.

At least with some human art even if it's not aesthetically pleasing you can appreciate the thinking or time and effort put into producing a piece of work. When you go to an art museum you can learn about history, politics, culture etc even if you don't appreciate how something might look.

Most AI art, however, is useless and ugly.

I have noticed the British spelling of words has disappeared too. Is every writer there murican now?

Churnalism as an industry is very broken sadly T_T. Advertisers want to see engagement and the easiest way to do that is to suck up to Google SEO and pump more articles on the daily. Original and accurate reporting is expensive to produce. Only the biggest publishers or ones that are well funded can afford to do this. So in order to get the reader's eyeballs and clicks, the guys in the middle and bottom tiers have to crank out news and end up rehashing what has already been broken by bigger orgs. That's why The Register mostly looks like any other mediocre tech site now. I know someone who used to be a reporter and they got tired of having to rewrite stories for little pay.