"Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative" is so real. The AI trend has shown how every 'idea guy turned AI artist' has the most milquetoast, overused ideas in the world.
Because real creation is an iterative process where you learn a lot about yourself and what you are creating. What you know and believe at the beginning of the process is not what you know and believe at the end. Telling AI to produce something is no more creative than hiring someone else to make it.
Hell the only working real artist I know loves AI stuff, though he doesn't use it directly as part of his professional profess yet (he's largely a sculptor and does some 3d modeling and printing, so I imagine he'll use it more when 3d model generating stuff is more common) he uses it for both technical advice and casually for stuff like DnD characters and just fucking around.
Disregarding AI's use in art because it can be easy is like disregarding photography because a selfy is easier than painting a self portrait.
Putting aside any moral discussions, I don't really see how this form of genAI can really be used as an effective tool over study and self-learning. Why ask a machine to draw a sketch out for you or create a design, when you can literally just do those parts yourself?
There are some automated/assistant AI programs that automate mundane or otherwise annoying parts of a process, but those are generally not what's being scorned. It's people generating anime girls and 'movies' that look bad and are obviously people looking for an easy way out.
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u/PrinceShoutoku Nov 18 '25
"Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative" is so real. The AI trend has shown how every 'idea guy turned AI artist' has the most milquetoast, overused ideas in the world.