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by topato 300 days ago
Right? Came to the comments specifically for this, but am confused by people's responses. With prompt adherence this bad, is it worth the 2 cents you spent on it? I don't see how it's even useful for deciding if you want to use the ultra version, or for anything else really.... Maybe if you want to redo it in Photoshop? But at that point, breaking out the old Wacom tablet and making a composite image would probably be just as time intensive, but with much higher image quality (and none of the tale tell signs of AIgen)
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ben_w 300 days ago
Even if you only earn $12/hour, 2 cents is worth it to save just 6 seconds.

An image has to be much worse than that to fail to save you 6 seconds.

That said, this is their own chosen example of what it can do, so I'd have to assume it is much worse than that on average.

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hdjrudni 299 days ago
Will this save me 6 seconds? It'll take me longer than that to come up with a prompt, type it, enter it into the service, wait for it to generate, download it...

And again, if I can't use it because it's totally wrong, then... what are we even doing here?

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ben_w 298 days ago
> Will this save me 6 seconds? It'll take me longer than that to come up with a prompt, type it, enter it into the service, wait for it to generate, download it...

It will probably save a lot more, but the point is 6 seconds is the threshold at which 2 cents is "worth it".

Good art takes a long time to create.

If this image were representative, errors and all, it would be where you could expect a professional to reach after an hour or so, give or take — I've seen professionals working on an icon set for multiple days, and most webcomics I see, even when it's their full time job and they've got a good system going to make their output easy for themselves, don't tend to do produce outputs like this should have been more than once per day.

> And again, if I can't use it because it's totally wrong, then... what are we even doing here?

On this, I tend to agree. If you have a specific output in mind, quite often they're just wildly wrong. Repeated generations are just plain bad, and the system just can't seem to get what's being asked for.

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