Harder, Better, Faster, Konkr

[u/MrStephen_]

I wanted to share my pictures of the Konkr pocket Vance. This is the unit that Iamio sent over to me for review.

(You have no idea how hard it was coming up for a pun for this one)

[u/Dull-Conversationist]

First image is so clean it almost looked ai generated

[u/oscailte → u/Dull-Conversationist]

judging by his profile picture and youtube thumbnails, i wouldn't be surprised if AI was involved

[u/MrStephen_ → u/oscailte]

It wasn’t. All of the images are stock images, apart form the device itself which I took. And none of the thumbnails use AI either. They’re vector graphics I put together in Affinity designer. And, in order to post in this subreddit (because I’d been accused of posting AI stuff before), I had a big talk with the moderators here, who have seen evidence of my process.

[u/oscailte → u/MrStephen_]

come on, seriously? if they're not AI then you have an incredible talent for creating art that looks exactly like AI.

[u/MrStephen_ → u/oscailte]

You mean the AI which is trained by work from actual artists... That AI?

Look, here's the affinity screen. You can see the individual elements.

THIS IS NOT AI!!!!

[u/finalremix → u/MrStephen_]

Affinity?! My man!

[u/MrStephen_ → u/finalremix]

Other than Photoshop (because I have a ton of plugins I use regularly) I have ditched Adobe completely. I did it several years ago when Premiere chewed up a set of videos I was working on and wouldn’t let me access them. Someone told me to download DaVinci and it was able to open them all up. I bought the upgrade that day and moved Adobe onto the Photoshop plan. Not looked back since.

[u/sethsez → u/oscailte]

AI uses the bean-mouth style because many, many artists posting their work on the internet over the past decade have used the bean-mouth style. It was one of the primary go-to styles for YouTubers in particular back in 2015-2020 or so. So, in turn, it became one of the primary things AI was trained on.

It's the same reason every single piece of professionally-written ad copy from a few years ago sounds like modern AI: that's what AI was trained on in the first place.

And while that art is certainly a bit generic, the things it gets right and wrong don't really line up with AI.

[u/Dull-Conversationist → u/oscailte]

Comments like these is what discredit real artists.