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That comment on a YouTube tutorial about AI art having no 'intent' really got to me

I was watching a video by an artist named Jenny Oaks last Tuesday and she said AI images lack 'the human intention behind every brush stroke.' At first I rolled my eyes, but then I thought about my own process. I spent 4 hours messing with prompts to get a picture of a cat in a spacesuit and it still came out wrong, and I realized she had a point. Has anyone else felt like their AI art is missing something because you don't actually decide where the light hits or why the tail curves that way?

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spencer_ross9h ago

Wait, you spent FOUR HOURS on a cat in a spacesuit? That's insane in the best way, but also that's exactly the problem she's talking about. You're basically playing a lottery where you type words and hope the machine spits out something good, but you never actually touch the pixels. I spent a month once painting a simple apple, moving the brush a thousand times just to get the shadow right, and that feeling of control is just gone with AI. You can't decide if the tail curves like a question mark or a hook, the program guesses for you. So yeah, Jenny Oaks hit the nail on the head, and it bugs me more the more I think about it.

parker_bell6h ago

Whole world's going this way - speed over feeling the work.

dakota_rivera7h ago

Actually you can tweak every single detail with inpainting and weight adjustments, it's not all random guesswork.