AI art has only become popular recently but it's already incredibly annoying and frustrating to me. "Well human artists take direct inspiration from other artists too, so where is the difference?" Can people really be that dumb? Have they not taken 1 minute to think? The difference is obvious, especially to anyone who's been interested in art for a while. I think one of the greatest examples was the Sailor Moon redraw challenge.. last year? Or 2 years ago? Thousands of artists redrew the exact same image. Some even tried to copy the original artstyle. But none of the images looked the same. There was uniqueness in every single one. Every artist thought carefully about what should stay exactly the same, what should change. Even the tiniest bit. Single dots. Everything has a thought behind it, a reason. And the most interesting thing was the facial expression. We all saw the same but interpreted it differently. Some drew her looking confident, some drew her looking angry, some drew her looking sad. Our brains told us all something different even though we saw the same image. AI doesn't "think". It just sees and copies. There is no reason. There is no history in where you grew up and how that affects what you see. Nothing of value at all. And I hate it.
Wish I could condense this into something short to post under every single persons comment who claims AI art and real artists work is the same 'cause it's fucking not and this example alone proves it.
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