Hit 1000 downloads on my AI generated art and felt like a fraud

So I put up some AI art on a free download site just to see what would happen... three weeks later I hit 1000 downloads. But nobody knows it's AI made. I used Midjourney and touched up a few things in Photoshop. Part of me feels proud, part of me feels like I'm tricking people. Anyone else feel this weird disconnect when your AI stuff gets popular?

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sage_dixon23d ago

Used to be pretty against calling AI stuff 'real art' myself, but then I watched a friend who can barely draw a stick figure spend weeks learning how to prompt and tweak images until he got something he was actually proud to show his family. The way his face lit up made me realize I was being too narrow about what counts as skill. You put time into learning the tools, you made choices about composition and color, you even did manual touch ups in Photoshop. That isnt tricking anybody, that is you using everything available to make something people enjoy.

pat_schmidt6023d ago

You could barely draw a stick figure" - okay but thats the point right? The guy spent weeks on prompts and photoshop but still never actually learned to draw a stick figure. Thats like me spending weeks learning how to microwave a frozen dinner and calling myself a chef. I mean sure he made something he's proud of and thats fine but lets not pretend its the same as someone who spent years grinding out bad paintings before they got good. The real skill isnt in typing words into a box, its in having the eye and the hand to create something from nothing. But hey what do I know, I'm just a guy who can actually draw a stick figure without a computer doing half the work for me.

finleyw9918d ago

Not sure why we gotta rank suffering to decide what counts as art.