>>142742192I'm not OP nor the anon in the middle, and I directly, literally said AI can be used as a tool. I know "soulless" is subjective and borderline meaningless from an outsider perspective, just see the people who mistake real art for AI and vice versa. But I dunno, there's just something, maybe not soul-related but just missing the point about outsourcing your creativity. You hear people talk about "every brush stroke" a lot, and while I agree it can be a moot point if an outsider can't tell a manual brush stroke from an AI simulating one, it's more about your individual thoughts in your brain being broken down and translated onto a page. People just connect with that more. Like when you see unga bunga cave drawings, the knowledge that someone had to have drawn it just makes you feel a connection to it. I know you'll say AI art is that, but like I said, it's more of a slot machine. It gets the gist, not the details. And when you prompt something like "adventurer wearing cool body armor", it's the AI coming up with the details/designs, not you. No thought. If you try to be more specific it usually gets confused and screws up your vision even harder.
Obviously there's a limit with the le sovl debate, I don't think artists should handicap themselves unnecessarily by quantifying more effort as being better. I'd be fine with, for example, AI doing inbetweens with an artist doing key frames. AI should replace the tedious parts, not the creative parts.
