@Background Pony #9B0D
Everyone sucks when they start, that’s part of being human, no one is born with all the skills. The difference is, you were still learning and developing your skills; while people using machine-learning image generators are not.
The problem with the overwhelming majority of people using the AI generator tools is that they want all of the acclaim for being artists, but don’t want to do the work to become artists. They want to be admired as artists, but don’t want to have to deal with the struggle for improvement and time and questioning themselves to develop confidence in their work that real artists go through.
The fact that so many of them whinge so loudly about getting moved to an AI-specific space, and demanding they be allowed to be part of real art spaces, is pretty clear proof of that. If they were truly confident that what they are doing is just as valid, they’d be happy to have their own forums away from their detractors and be recognized there. But they’re not happy about it, which demonstrates that they are aware, at least on some level, that what they’re doing is not real art and never will be.
