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01: A girl labeled ‘Artists’ is holding a drawing tablet and pen under her arm. She is wearing round glasses and a blue sweatshirt. She has messy dark-brown hair and a brown skin-tone. She says “We don’t really wanna MAKE A.I. art.”
02: A guy labeled ‘Art Enjoyers’ holds his hand out while speaking. She is wearing a purple and yellow hawaiian shirt with a floral pattern over a white t-shirt, and has red hair and a light skin-tone. He says “We don’t really wanna SEE A.I. art.”
03: Behind them both, there is a cute girl in a business suit with a pink tie. She is blushing a bit and has pink eyeshadow, and looks upset. Her messy shoulder-length hair is parted in the middle, and held by two hairclips: one that looks like a red arrow pointing down, and one that looks like a green arrow pointing up. She says “Um … I-Isn’t there someone you forgot to ask?” She is labeled ‘Shareholders’.
04: She puffs up her cheeks and pouts, a tear is on the verge of falling from one of her eyes. ‘Artist Enjoyers’ Guy is now in front of her yelling “AH!! SHAREHOLDERS-CHAN!!” while ‘Artists’ Girl is in front of her yelling “WE’RE SORRY WE HURT YOU!!!”
Effort doesn’t equate to skill, you still have to out in the physical effort of fucking trying to make something, again, especially in regards to unskilled art what is being appreciated is specifically the effort put into it. Someone tried to express something.
Prompts are not a fucking skill. AI is not a skill, it is not an artistic effort. You made nothing, you had a program procedurally generate colors. If you commission an artist you don’t get to take credit for their work, the same goes for AI color vomit. Art requires expression, intent, and effort, those aren’t things you can procedurally generate nor code.
Writing is a skill. But also inpainting areas with prompts and building different layers of the image with different prompts is certainly a skill.
A marketing skill, sure, it don’t make you an artist and it don’t make you creative or a creator. It’s coloring by numbers, but instead of actually painting anything you are just having printed. You’re a fucking hack, you fucking hack.