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My friend's kid called my AI landscape 'just a pretty picture' and it got me thinking...
I was showing off a Midjourney piece I made of a sunset over the Rockies at a barbecue last month. My buddy's son, maybe 12, looked at it and said, 'It's just a pretty picture... my computer can do that.' He didn't say it to be mean, he just didn't get why I was proud. That stuck with me because he's right, the computer did make it... but I still put in the hours of prompts and edits. Does the work behind the prompt count for anything, or is it all just the machine's output?
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susanh469h ago
That "just a pretty picture" line hits hard. My niece said almost the same thing about a portrait I made. Sure, the AI did the rendering, but who figured out the right words and fixed all the weird hands? That's real work. It feels like directing, not just pushing a button. The kid isn't wrong, but he doesn't see the hours it took to learn how to tell the machine what to do.
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river1828h ago
Tell the kid my computer can also make a grilled cheese, but I'm still the one who has to stand there and watch it. Maybe we should start calling it digital cooking?
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