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TIL I was wrong about AI art after messing with Midjourney for 30 days straight
Two months ago I was the guy in every comment section saying AI art was just stealing and mashing stuff together, no skill involved. Then my friend showed me her process and I got curious enough to pay the $10 for one month of Midjourney. I quickly learned that typing 'cool dragon' gets you garbage, and the real work starts after that. I redid the same prompt about 40 times, changing camera angles, lighting words, and style refs, and only 3 or 4 came out usable. The part that got me was editing afterward, because I still ran the best ones through Photoshop to fix hands and weird eyes for close to an hour each. I started thinking about how my brother spends 20 hours on a painting and gets one image, while I spend 3 hours and get something people actually want to hang on a wall. I don't think it's the same as painting, but calling it 'no effort' felt wrong once I did it myself. So where do you all draw the line, is it the prompt work, the editing, or something else that makes it art to you?
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the_amy17d ago
It means a lot that you actually tried it before making up your mind, because most people just dig in and never bother. Your point about the 40 prompts and the hour of Photoshop work really lands, since the effort just moves to a different part of the process instead of going away. I get why you're torn though, because there's a real gap between what your brother does and what you're doing, and both things can be true at once. For me the line is less about the tool and more about whether the person is making real choices the whole way through, and it sounds like you are.
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