I tend to agree, which is probably why I don't have any tattoos, but my friends that do have them make me suspect that they may care about different stuff than us.
Most of the tattoos that I've seen are frankly uninspired. Dragons, flowers, skulls, knives. Some of the more unique ones are album artwork, but how creative is that really? Yet nobody seems bothered by this, they all show them off proudly! (There are some exceptions... My cousin had a full sleeve of Freddy Krueger making the pussy eating symbol with his blade fingers that was probably the crown jewel of some artists portfolio. An odd choice to be sure, but an impressive piece of work.)
I've come to believe that the draw here is the act of personalizing one's own body, not the quality of the art.
Everybody is different, but for the people I know with tattoos picking an artist and having them create a design based on their input was a big part of getting their tattoos.
At the end of the day, if that's not a big part of it for other people then more power to them. AI generated at least ensures some level of image quality.
>based on their input was a big part of getting their tattoos.
For me, as someone with ~70% of my body covered, I would have no problem using AI-generated images as part of that input.
I'm not just going to get whatever the model spits out as a 1:1 tattoo. But when I have a hard to describe idea, having some references in my pocket to pull out and say "something sort of like this" is helpful.
Most of the tattoos that I've seen are frankly uninspired. Dragons, flowers, skulls, knives. Some of the more unique ones are album artwork, but how creative is that really? Yet nobody seems bothered by this, they all show them off proudly! (There are some exceptions... My cousin had a full sleeve of Freddy Krueger making the pussy eating symbol with his blade fingers that was probably the crown jewel of some artists portfolio. An odd choice to be sure, but an impressive piece of work.)
I've come to believe that the draw here is the act of personalizing one's own body, not the quality of the art.