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Also, all of the time that people spend tweaking their prompts could just as easily be time spent learning to create their own art. The distance between absolute beginner and competent artist isn't as vast as some people would like to believe. It's just intimidating to a lot of people to get up the will to even try.
Nah dude, I can draw somewhat competently, but it takes a lot of time and dedication to get there. Tweaking prompts is orders of magnitudes easier and quicker than actually drawing something neverming learning to draw something.
I was awful at drawing and painting and now I'm not. I've walked that path, and I'm glad I spend the time learning those skills. I much prefer creating whatever I want to as opposed to pecking a word at a time, trying to coax something vaguely like it from an algorithm. That seems sad to me.
I mean, if it's some attempt at a passion project I guess it could be? But I'm usually just letting my GPU churn out cool wallpapers or character art in the background while I watch YouTube. There's no real soul going into it, but I'm not pretending to put in any, either.
And that's totally fine. I could see using it for that purpose too. I think there are a fair number of people who might like to be artists, but they think it's too hard, and so they look at ai as being a shortcut.