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Vent: I called AI art 'a fancy filter' at a bar in Austin, then a guy showed me his workflow
Last weekend I was at a bar on Rainey Street in Austin and this dude next to me was showing his phone to the bartender, and it was this wild sci-fi cityscape. I laughed and said AI art is just a fancy filter, no skill involved. He didn't get mad, he just pulled up his laptop and walked me through his whole process for like 20 minutes. Turns out he draws a rough sketch first, then writes a 400 word prompt, then runs it through three different tools and tweaks each one. He had maybe 60 versions of that one image saved in a folder. I was so sure it was one click and done, and it was way more like editing a photo in Photoshop but with words. I still think there's a real debate about credit and training data, but I was wrong about the effort part. Anyone else have their mind changed on this stuff after seeing how the sausage gets made?
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dylan4131mo ago
Sixty versions of one image is the part that gets me. That's not a filter, that's a grind. People picture AI art as type six words and post it, but the good stuff is basically a hundred tiny decisions, and most of them get thrown out. Same reason I respect a photographer who shoots 500 frames to get one keeper. The effort is real even if the credit question is still a mess.
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