My friend's AI portrait made me think about the 'no effort' argument differently

I used to say AI art wasn't real because it took no effort. Then my friend, who can't draw a straight line, made a portrait of his late dog using an AI tool. He spent over a week typing in hundreds of different prompts, mixing parts of other images, and tweaking small details like the color of the collar. He showed me the 50 failed versions before he got it right. The final picture made him cry. How can you look at that and say there was no human effort or feeling in it? The tool did the drawing, but he did the hard work of guiding it with his memories. It's not the same as picking up a brush, but it's not nothing either. Has anyone else seen an AI image where the story behind it changed their mind?

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the_rowan11d ago

Fixing weird hands for a whole comic book sounds like a special kind of hell.

matthewperry11d ago

Remember my buddy who tried that? He gave up after three pages of messed up fingers and just drew little gloves on everyone.

ivan21111d ago

My cousin made a whole comic book with AI art (it was surprisingly good). The time he spent writing the story and fixing weird hands was insane.