Why do artists think this is a flex?

Congratulations, you did an art. Cartoons were created exclusively by humans until recently. There’s millennia of optimization for what’s easy for humans to draw, and what’s easy for humans to understand. If you are an illustrator by training or trade, of course you can out-cartoon the robot.

Now draw a cat that’s photorealistic.

You can, of course. Hyperrealist art exists. It’s hilariously difficult. But this tech allows any idiot to render any thing in any style, including high verisimilitude. When people use the word “accessible” (and they aren’t simply douchebags shuffling cards) they mean getting results like they spent ten thousand hours in Photoshop, in about a minute.

Key word, like. It always fumbles little details. But those details can be a smudge of grey when you ask for a blank white square, or they can be asymmetry in the thousands of gilded flowers on a fluted column, when you asked for a palatial dining hall. Both images take a minute.

I can code better than this tech. But most people can’t. They could, if trained, but they’re not trained, so they presently cannot. I cannot write or play music better than this tech. Others can, because they’re sentient adults with abundant practice. But now anyone can get halfway there, without any practice.

Winning a drawing contest against people who cannot draw is not impressive. And I wonder how many artists silently tried it and lost anyway, because some geek pulled a sprawling Renaissance mural out of thin air. It’s a cute cat. But if it’s going up against some Wimmelbild that’s packed to the gills with silly details and looks like a skull from across the room - good luck.

You could draw that skull thing better. But you couldn’t do it in an afternoon.

It’s clearly not AI because it doesn’t have weird uncanny and wonky shit. Also the text on the monitor is readable even though it’s blurry

I hope people keep doing this. It’s a few times now lol. Fuck Ai.

Of course a hand drawn image by someone who can draw well is better - the artist practiced for years and took hours to draw this. On the other hand whoever took second place used a few minutes and had no training to produce something that was probably quite nice, too.

It’s this ‘everybody can produce art in seconds’ that is both good and bad. On the one hand I like how I can get a image of whatever I want for pennies, on the other hand I can understand how artist fear devaluation of their art.

How dare you cheat and submit human-generated content to an honest AI competition? Entrants spent literally minutes crafting and refining prompts.

People did notice it wasnt AI. It was good.

so their art is so bad it was mistaken for ai? weird flex but ok.

I fucking love cats so much!!!

You’ll be one of the first they come after.

That is such a cute picture

I managed to coax some remarkable (to me) artwork from some of the free generators. Got bored real quick though.

Alfredo Inshtine over here.

So, was it the first time you found out that you were AI? Or did you suspect beforehand?

this is like a 2 year old meme at this point. Please don’t strip out the date when you take a screenshot of social media.

i would wash that keyboard. cat poop often contains worm eggs and other disgusting things. it sticks to everything that the cat touched with its ass. better clean the keyboard thoroughly.