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Heard a guy at the coffee shop say AI art is just 'fancy copy and paste'
I was grabbing a coffee yesterday and this guy at the next table was going on about how all these new image generators are just stealing from real artists. He called it fancy copy and paste. It got me thinking, is that really fair? I've been using Midjourney for six months to make concept art for my indie game. It doesn't just mash stuff together. You give it a wild idea, like 'a clockwork fox in a neon forest,' and it builds something totally new from that. It's a tool, not a thief. The guy at the coffee shop probably never even tried to guide one through a complex prompt. But it makes you wonder, how do we even start to talk about what's original anymore when a machine can make it? Has anyone else had to defend using this stuff to people who don't get it?
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the_wendy4d ago
My friend's art teacher saw his AI assisted piece and asked who the real artist was. He had to explain how he built the prompt like a sketch first, you know?
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dakotaellis4d ago
People get so worked up about originality. A photographer uses a camera, a digital artist uses Photoshop filters and brushes they didn't make. Is that theft too? The machine needs a human to tell it what to do. That guy's clockwork fox idea came from his head, not a database. The tool just helped him see it faster. Maybe we're just mad that the job got easier.
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