[chefandy]

As a commercial artist that's worked in several professional creative industries, I find the current textual methods of interacting with generative image AI to be unusable for the vast majority of professional tasks. I think they're great for a lot of laypeople because they abstract away things that laypeople don't want to have to think about— but in professional workflows, you need specificity at pixel-level granularity, predictability, and repeatability. Those things are all difficult with purpose-built tools and impossible through text prompts. I haven't spoken to a single colleague that doesn't work in high-volume, low-effort end of their disks/fields that disagree. Most commercial artists selling point is deciding exactly what should go into a piece, and implementing it is the easy part.

The pro tools that have incorporated generative AI into their workflows are not at all textual. The environment that popularizes this among the general public will look a lot more like canva or maybe Instagram than what's popular now.