Been obsessed with ai art most of 2023. Stable Diffusion is complicated, but worth it.
I don’t see it as competing with art. Art is often something you do…it’s a process not a product. What it does is 100x your output. It is a creative supercharger.
For me….visual art was a pursuit of trying to make the images that were not of this world seem believable. Genre is called Imaginative Realism.
I would take ref photo of model and collect ref pics. Then use these to try to make the vision have the fidelity of my mental picture.
I hit a skill cap and lost the time it took to create (4 hours a night) AI art will allow people to iron out their idea and use the output as a reference. Or it will allow anyone to include visual elements in their work without the need to pay someone. With GPT4 you can spawn an image just as a way to highlight a post. It’s amazing.
To me art is the idea, not the product. But others might feel differently. I also didn’t enjoy working the tool I chose. I couldn’t make a mistake (ink doesn’t erase) and one leaking technical pen could mean almost a year of work went up in smoke. Ai Art is more enjoyable to me then the medium I chose to embrace (pen and ink).