[Muskwalker]

Yeah, the bit that gets me is the assumption that an artist just _yields_ to the AI's choices.

The author says in the article "my own hand, the single most valuable asset I possess", but I'd say that much greater is the artist's eye——the artist doesn't just accept every line that flows out of their pencil, but knows what to throw out, what to redraw.

The infamous stereotype of AI art, the hand with too many fingers, is the outcome of a lot of people being given an artificially skilled hand without the skilled eye to go with it...

The AI artist who doesn't just cede to the AI, though, is bringing their own hand and eye to the work, not accepting the mere output of a prompt, but actively remaking it as an expression of their own craft and vision.

[sinuhe69]

With the difference that they have to invoke incantation instead of using their invaluable hands :’)

And I guess that could create the much dreaded feeling of yielding up their artistic agency.

[thyrsus]

I've always wondered why people didn't edit out the extra fingers and legs. I haven't played with it myself - is post editing difficult?

[Vecr]

Not really, you erase and then inpaint, or replace the offending area with multicolor noise, put a bit of multicolor noise over the whole thing, then do an image-to-image run on that.