My thoughts on AI-generated images (Patreon)
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For everybody who knows me, I'm a very positive person, in the sense that it's very hard to find me complaining about anything.
But something is going on lately that has been frustrating me so much that I feel I shouldn't hide it to myself because I know many artists out there are feeling the same as I am now. And the cause of this enormous frustration is these AI-generated images that have been spamming all around, especially on DeviantArt.
Now, I don't have a problem with this medium itself, as there's no way of stopping such a thing from happening. I might even consider using it at some point in the future to help accelerate my work process.
The problem I have with it is that there's no way for a traditional artist like myself to compete with something like this when it comes to the quantity of work. And when you work with the internet, you realize that both platforms and people prefer quantity over quality(the number of times I got people complaining about my work that I don't post as much is pretty ridiculous).
As a vector-based artist, I know I work pretty fast, but I also learned through the years that people don't care about the means you use to get results, only about the results themselves, and this whole AI-generated thing is proof of it.
Yesterday, I came across one of these AI "artists", and in only three weeks of DeviantArt page, they had over 5k watchers. Now, the number might not sound so impressive, but there's something else that needs to be considered. In the almost three years that I have an account there, I have *only* 12k watchers.
Now, I won't ever stop doing what I do, because I know some people genuinely appreciate my work, and the number of patrons I have is proof of that.
What sads me is to see that a person who only writes a prompt on an AI-generation program and that have never studied anatomy, perspective, or color theory, receives the same appreciation(if not more) than a real artist like me.
So, what are your thoughts on this whole AI thing?