[bluefirebrand]

> This argument falls apart when you consider digital photographers. They didn’t create the image - a machine and software did. Would you make the same argument that a photographer’s only copyright is the input to the camera settings and the color-grading software

All this says is you have no idea how much skill, theory and planning goes into digital photography when people are pursuing it as an art form and not just record keeping

Really artistic photographers put in an enormous amount of work into a photo, scouting locations, finding the right time and lighting for the shot they want, sometimes even waiting for the right season

The artistic value of digital photography is embedded in the artists skills, knowledge, and time

Comparing Digital Photographers to AI prompters who can generate a mountain of sludge with a single prompt is a joke

[elpocko]

All this says is you have no idea how much skill, theory and planning goes into prompting an AI when people are pursuing it as an art form and not just slop generation.

The guy invested 100+ hours into creating one image. You should be ashamed of yourself for your shallow dismissal of his work.

[bluefirebrand]

Spending 100+ hours trying to coax the computer to produce the work you want isn't impressive. The idea that there is some huge amount of skill and theory behind writing prompts is absurd. It's not as though he spent 100+ hours crafting the perfect prompt with his skill and theory and the results were perfect first try. Be real: He spent 100+ hours writing dozens, perhaps hundreds of prompts, until it spat out the result he wanted. Prompting is a guess and test process, not a skill. Anyone claiming otherwise is deluded

I will never respect "prompters" as artists. No one should. A shallow dismissal is all they deserve

[elpocko]

Doubling down on your ignorance, nice. It's refreshing to see that ignorance, intolerance and shitting on people's work becomes fashionable again. I hope this trend continues.

Photographers are not artists btw. They just point a lens and press a button. Anyone can do that, no skill required. I will never respect them.

[bluefirebrand]

When someone writes prompts to commission a human artist to create a painting, we never even remotely consider them an artist

Why should we consider someone an artist when they write prompts to a computer to have it create paintings? It's clear that the painting is not being created by them

Continuing to draw this false equivalence between prompting and photography is not helping you. And simply replacing words in what I'm saying, mad-libs style, to parrot back to me, is not the own you think it is

[elpocko]

lol, "helping me", "the own". You're the ignorant idiot here. It's exactly the amount of effort you deserve. Learn some self-awareness.