>>4349179>does the act of drawing something in mspaint make me more of an artist than if i just make AI art?Kind of, yeah.
The skills needed to produce the desired AI image are completely different from the skills needed to draw the same image.
They're programming skills, not art skills.
I think one of the reasons a lot of people actively dislike AI art is that it allows people to bypass all the years of struggle it takes to draw good art, and then make basic mistakes like 11 fingers, melting limbs, or shading that makes no sense.
I think there's a perception that there's a much, much lower skill requirement to be able to produce AI art, hence why sites have been flooded with it. There is a skill requirement (setting up the program, using the right prompts), but people probably see that as trivial compared to learning anatomy, color theory, shading and lighting, etc. I think it's understandable for people who draw to not appreciate AI art much, or at least when people dilute their own works with what they see as a cheap imitation.
Personally, I like some AI art, but since so much of it seems to come from the same model, it looks very generic. Plus, it does make weird mistakes like the number of fingers.
I think there is an aspect of knowing that a computer, not a human, assembled the image that lessens it's value, too. Maybe something about knowing it only took a few minutes, rather than hours of effort.
I see it as a tool that we haven't figured out the best way to use yet.
