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Rant: People keep saying AI art is just pushing a button
I keep seeing this online, that making AI art takes no skill and you just type a word. That is so wrong. I spent three months learning how to write good prompts, use inpainting, and fix weird hands. My friend who is a painter said my last piece, a cityscape with two moons, looked like I spent hours on it. It actually took me about 40 tries to get the lighting right. If it was just a button, why does my stuff look way better than my first attempts? Why do people think there is no learning curve at all?
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nora_dixon1mo ago
The "weird hands" thing is a perfect example. It's not just fixing them, it's learning why they break in the first place. You start to see how the AI links words together, like @fisher.adam said. If you just type "person holding a glass," it might give you eight fingers. You have to learn to guide it away from that trap, using different words or breaking the scene into parts. It's less like pushing a button and more like learning a really stubborn partner's bad habits so you can work around them.
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fisher.adam1mo ago
Exactly! The button-press thing drives me nuts. My first prompts were garbage, just random word soup. Took weeks to learn how the model actually sees things, like using specific artist names or camera terms.
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