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I definitely think the flooding of art spaces is hugely problematic, but it is pretty funny to watch people try to "be an artist" by putting essentially no effort in. It definitely points to a lack of understanding in the field when all these people are basically generating a ton of images that are all derived from the same models. There's a lack of understanding of supply and demand, when the expectation is that your ai illustration that you made in like an hour with the same software as every other ai artist is that it's somehow going to be competitive on engagement with an original piece from an artist who has an audience. There's a lot of demand for artists like Mika Pikazo and Frank Frazetta, not the 100,000 ai artists out there.

[ToucanLoucan]

I mean it's hard to fault those people when that was essentially how these were sold way back. "Automating art" and all that. All the most insufferable people on twitter jumping from shilling crypto scams to shilling AI and telling real artists in their ivory towers that their days were numbered.

Guess put it on the pile with all the other broken promises.