maria wrote:Thanks. Not sure why it's a thankless project, but thanks again for the time you put into generating the images.
It's thankless because people ask for something, and the artist gets nothing for it. It grooms people into asking for more and not being happy with what they get. Most artists - AI or human - get hit with random, sometimes inane requests, and it's frustrating because we go out of our way to create something we don't want to make, purely for someone else's entertainment, and it's rarely appreciated. It's consumed and forgotten.
It's not so bad if we had more creators - period - so that there's plenty of work to consume and enjoy. But the few who create get burned a lot. Especially now with AI, it's a total waste of time to ask an AI artist to create something when the tools are even more open and accessible, which you've now experienced.
The fun projects are the ones that get the artist invested and care about the work. If it's just something like "make me a picture with waders", it's a soulless input that I literally mash into the AI generator and forget about. And the extra effort I put in to actually make it look good is overlooked in favour of someone else just spamming out a hundred AI results.
