That’s on the editor and, at large, the public’s misconception. We can establish categories, creator labels and whatever we need to do to satisfy our egos, but make no mistake; generating “good” AI art is difficult. Generating the best quality work requires good knowledge of prompting syntax and usually some basic Photoshop skills for preprocessing and ControlNet.
I can also use my own sketch art as the ControlNet. It’s just a new powerful tool and another new digital medium. This time it’s colored by the gatekeeping sentiment that LESS talented individuals might produce art that is good. Which is an absurd way of thinking.
Laugh all you want but programmers have just been glorified “people who can Google really well” for years now, that’s exactly what we’re already describing here. And we do get paid well.
TIL people who prompt image generators are also called artists.
That’s on the editor and, at large, the public’s misconception. We can establish categories, creator labels and whatever we need to do to satisfy our egos, but make no mistake; generating “good” AI art is difficult. Generating the best quality work requires good knowledge of prompting syntax and usually some basic Photoshop skills for preprocessing and ControlNet.
I can also use my own sketch art as the ControlNet. It’s just a new powerful tool and another new digital medium. This time it’s colored by the gatekeeping sentiment that LESS talented individuals might produce art that is good. Which is an absurd way of thinking.
Would “prompt specialist” or something like that be more accurate?
Laugh all you want but programmers have just been glorified “people who can Google really well” for years now, that’s exactly what we’re already describing here. And we do get paid well.