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My friend's dad said AI art is just 'fancy photocopying' at a BBQ last weekend
He's a painter and thinks it's stealing jobs from real artists. I argued that tools like Midjourney are just new brushes, and the creativity is in the prompt. He said 'a machine can't have a vision, kid' and walked off. Where do you stand on AI as a tool vs. a replacement?
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emmasmith6mo ago
That "machine can't have a vision" line is interesting. But what if the vision is in the human editing? I've seen artists use an AI image as a rough sketch, then spend hours in Photoshop fixing details and adding their own style. The AI part is maybe 5% of the final work.
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wells.james6mo ago
Exactly, it's just a starting point. @emmasmith gets it, the real work happens after the AI part. I use it for quick concepts then paint over everything. That old painter's vision is still driving the whole process.
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aaronf405mo ago
That "maybe 5% of the final work" is a ballpark number I keep hearing. But how do you even measure that? The AI is generating composition, lighting, color palette, sometimes even anatomy. Even if you paint over everything, that initial layout still guides your eye. So is it really 5% or more like 60% of the hard decisions made in that first pass?
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