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I finally stopped defending AI art and started using it for thumbnails
I used to be one of those people who would argue that AI art was just stolen pixels and had no soul. I spent like 6 months calling out every AI piece I saw on DeviantArt, getting into arguments in comment sections. Then my buddy who runs a small gaming channel asked me to help him make thumbnails, and I spent 3 hours trying to photoshop a decent space background. He just typed a prompt into Midjourney and had something usable in 90 seconds. I still think there are ethical issues, but after that day I realized I was being a gatekeeper about tools instead of focusing on the final result. Has anyone else had a moment where they had to eat their words about AI tools?
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william_carter1mo ago
Felixfisher summed it up well, tools really are just tools at the end of the day. For me, the thing that worked was admitting I was more worried about looking like a hypocrite than actually making something useful. Once I stopped caring about that and just focused on getting the job done, everything got a lot easier. You can spend hours arguing about where the pixels came from or you can spend those hours making something that actually helps someone. Pretty simple choice when you look at it that way.
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