My brother said AI art was just a gimmick, then I saw a gallery show in Portland

He told me it was all stolen images and soulless. I ignored him and kept using Midjourney for my design work. Last month I went to an exhibit called 'Neural Dreams' at a small gallery. Every piece was AI generated, but the artist had trained a custom model on her own photos from a decade of travel. The results were stunning, nothing like the generic stuff online. She sold 8 pieces in the first week. Has anyone else seen AI art used in a way that completely changed their mind about it?

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the_abby16h ago

Yeah, that custom model thing is the key. It's the difference between using a stock photo and your own camera. Makes all the work actually yours.

jakelee13h ago

Exactly, it's the only way to feel like you truly own the output. Using a public model feels like building on rented land, someone else's foundation. But putting in the work to train your own? That's YOUR style, your fingerprints are all over it. It just hits different when you know every part came from your own process.