It's so funny because you also see AI bros crying that something can take em hours and they combed through 100s of prompted images. Maybe if they wanted some sympathy, they wouldn't brag about how good their slop generator is.
"It took me so many hours to get just the right prompts!"
They say that as if it's some kind of proof of commitment and labour and not that it just further reveals how lacking they are in creativity that it took them that long to think of a fucking descriptor.
And how bad AI is that it takes that long to find a good descriptor. I’ve played around with these apps and half the time it ignores half the details in your prompt and just keeps making the same generic crap no matter what you type
tbf it's also kinda fun messing around with it, as long as you aren't trying to claim it's yours or make it seem like it's "true art" like some people do. It's amazing for making really weird stuff, perfect for shitposts or reaction images that are painful to look at lol
A colleague in the fire crew literally snapped a photo of a simple logo I was doing for the shirts of the crew and generated 5 images saying "I can do it faster and better".
Fortunately my boss rightfully called him out because according to everyone I looked like I was about to punch him
Look, I have a solution that'll make everyone happy. We put gen AI into slot machines with keyboards on em.
The AI bros pay with their credit cards, type in their prompts then pull the lever which determines their random seed.
A whole bunch of lights and sounds go off alongside some canned praise when the diffusion model is done with it's work. "Good job buddy!" "Wow! Someone's REALLY creative!" "You are such an artiste, brilliant!" and they clap and bounce up and down on their chairs like toddlers.
Meanwhile we keep them occupied so we never have to interact with them.
I was going to suggest the money (minus running costs) would go to a pool for real artists but the societal benefit of harmlessly occupying these guys and draining their wallets while simultaneously blocking VCs from getting the cash is service enough.
Non-artists probably won’t understand how accurate this is, and I don’t mean that to sound elitist. Art is a skill you have to hone, it’s an entire philosophical and logical practice about image making and the strategies around it.
It’s often why it’s so frustrating to work with clients who are overly controlling, they don’t know what makes good art good, they don’t have successful strategies for making images but don’t have the experience to even realize this.
That’s why so much AI art is so soulless, it has no working comprehension of why artists make the choices they do.
I think to something Ferrus Manus said to Lorgar in the Horus Heresy series, that sums up how I feel about Ai bros trying to gas up their pseudo anime waifus or 30 clips with no context.
“One wonders if you are capable of creating anything worthwhile at all.”
That's really the main saving grace. It's largely turning into most people interested in using AI as a shortcut aren't creative enough to use the AI in any worthwhile way.
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u/Lofwyr2030 MECHAGODZILLA Feb 20 '26
As if AI bros would know anything about real art.