Spent $40 on a Midjourney subscription and realized my own sketches still feel more valuable

The AI generated some wild concepts in five minutes, but when I tried to sell them nobody cared because they knew a human didn't draw it, has anyone else found that the money you save on hours ends up costing you the trust of buyers?

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alice_palmer2023d ago

nobody cared because they knew a human didn't draw it" - yeah, I'm calling that a you problem, not a tool problem. You tried to sell AI slop raw and got burned, that sucks but it's not some deep betrayal of the art world. Plenty of people make money off AI stuff by doing smart edits or combining it with traditional work. Your sketches are more valuable to you because you actually made them, but buyers don't care about your feelings, they care about the final product being good. Stop acting like $40 was some huge loss when that's barely two cups of coffee. Maybe figure out how to use the tool right instead of whining that strangers on the internet can tell you took a shortcut.

olivia_harris1923d ago

Idk it's kind of like when I buy expensive workout gear and expect it to suddenly make me fit, you know? The tool is only as good as how you actually use it, and it sounds like you just hit generate and hoped for the best. But that whole thing about trust with buyers feels real, people can smell when something's just lazy.