Hot take: AI art generators are killing creativity, not helping it

Honestly, I tried using Midjourney for a project last week and I felt like I was just typing prompts instead of actually making something. Three years ago I was learning to sketch by hand and messing up every day, but at least I was learning. Now people think typing a sentence is the same as being an artist. Ngl, I watched a friend spend $50 on credits just to generate 100 images he barely looked at. Has anyone else noticed their own creative skills getting worse since relying on AI tools?

3 comments

3 Comments

blakem1313d ago

Yeah but typing prompts into Google search was never about creating something new, it was about finding something that already existed. This is different because people are actually selling AI art now and pretending they made it. I get the whole "it's just a tool" argument but tools don't usually do all the work for you while you stand there and watch. If I paid a guy to paint a picture and then signed my name on it, that ain't me being creative either. It's not like I'm losing sleep over it but pretending this is the same as learning to paint or draw feels like a stretch to me.

morgan_ramirez17d ago

nah bro you're looking way too deep into this. it's just a tool like photoshop or a paintbrush, nobody's out here saying typing "photorealistic cat in a spaceship" makes you the next picasso. people were typing prompts into google image search for years before this and nobody cried about "killing creativity" then.

the_oscar17d ago

Think about who actually profits from this though. The guys selling these tools are the same ones pushing automation in every other industry, they don't care about art they care about cutting labor costs. Nobody worried about Google image search killing creativity because you couldn't sell the results as your own work and make money off it.