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Same. Much easier to eat

There’s definitely this aspect, but at least for me with strict parents there’s also loads of examples of:

‘Huh, doing this particular chore every two weeks instead of every week doesn’t actually cause any real problems and isn’t a world ending disaster like my parents seemed to claim’

Becoming an adult meant finding out just how much of my childhood was personal preference of my parents and not some sort of objectively correct way to live. Life has been a lot better now that I can do things the way I prefer.

AI art kind of feels like technology that has some really cool potential, but was taken in completely the wrong direction.

Like image generators are just dumb. Describing in text what you want a picture to look like is exactly the wrong approach. We even have sayings about this exact issue! A picture is worth a thousand words. Well even with a thousand word prompt, it’s still incredibly difficult to get the picture you want. This is ignoring all the tracking down of various loras and what not to try to control the output a bit better.

No, the whole image generator concept is just a dumb gimmick of extremely limited value to anyone.

The real value (to me) would be empowering already talented artists with custom loras and LLMs trained on their own art to help speed up repetitive parts of their art creation process.

To enable individual artists to scale up their work into larger logical chunks. Maybe they’ve already mastered noses or eyes or this one specific squiggly line that really comes up quite a lot for some reason. To take someone who’s already talented and give them an even faster and smoother workflow to get to what new and unique idea they’re trying out now faster.

Basically the same way auto complete helped programmers but for artists.

Maybe this already exists, or maybe it’s still being worked on, but to me this seems like the way we should’ve always been headed. Humanity is about building better and faster tools. Not just trying to cope with randomly generated slop.

But because it’s comics and they need to keep selling them it’s not like things are allowed to truly get better. If it ever does the universe is rebooted and they start over.

The city is literally cursed and goes through shit constantly partially due to that.

Honestly if the city is literally cursed, then the best use of resources is a) curse breakers or b) relocation program to somewhere not cursed. And then quarantining the city so no one can get in anymore.

Somewhere along the way we built a system that doesn’t actually require you to do or make anything. And that’s been absolutely horrible.