AI slop prompters will never feel the exhilaration of drawing fanatically. Time becomes irrelevant. Your body morphs into just a device for devotion. You are devotion. Never blinking. Your heart beat might as well have never began, because you have become a machine for craft. You are every person before you that has ever touched pencil to paper. Your blood sings as you become a singularity. Never blinking. Never breathing. Never hearing. Eyes on paper, hand moving as if pushed and pulled by an unknown force. They will never understand the madness you feel when you enter a state where you do not starve, ache, or think. The moment you snap out of that haze, your hands covered in graphite and your stomach clawing at your insides for sustenance, that's the closest thing to divinity I have ever felt. I chase it even when my body deteriorates. I understand the weakness of my flesh and it does not deter me
I have ecstatic seizures that compell me to write for days. I have touched infinity and it's interesting to see how it seeps through the neural nets in my brain out my fingers onto the keys, and it's even interesting to see how that looks fed back through finely and intentionally tuned, trained, and modulated neural networks on my GPU. I'm better than you at knowing and appreciating what art is.
AI slop prompters like me actually draw too. Literally do know what you're talking about, and it does apply to any creative process. I know better than you cause I'm not an anxious reactionary snob who has decided to cling to the losing side of a battle between artists that has been won by "slop" every single time for all of history. You've told yourself a story about the skill ceiling of generative AI, and the value of the artistic process of using it, and I hope it's some small comfort to you. Keep losing.
did chatgpt write that response for you too
If I take the time to read a story or look at a picture, what I see is important. No doubt the end result has value.
But the story means nothing to me if there was no growth no learning no moment of exhilaration where you found the right word for the right way to phrase something no frustration when you couldn't get it quite right or get across what you're trying to say no trepidation when you're about to share it with the world going I have done my best and this thing that I work very hard on I'm now going to take the risk and share this precious thing that I work so hard on.
The art is inherently less you might come out with something pretty in fact it could be fantastic it could be beautiful but it's Hollow I sit down and look at it and regardless of what it looks like how well it seems to be executed or how much the prompter tells me that is exactly a representation of what is in their head it means nothing. The Creator didn't really create it so much as ask something else to do it something else that didn't worry about a brush stroke or how dark a line was something that didn't put it in an extra bit of effort to get trading or details or accessories as close to the person who commissioned them or is doing it themselves wishes. There's no emotion of the moment or emotional intent behind any of how the artist composed its Hollow empty simply a bunch of colors slapped onto a wall that happened to be pleasing at best.
AI in creative spaces can create things that are just good enough to fill the void of time, attention, and dopamine that our brains crave in current culture and society. But at least for me when I read a story it means something to know that somebody worked as hard as they could to get what they came up with in their head as close to what they wanted to convey every moment every action every scene all of it no matter how professionally or poorly written was done by a person with clear intent and agency actively assembling these pieces rather than simply going over work they ask something else that can only produce things that are good enough to do and editing.
When I look at a piece of artwork that is drawn once again, professional amateur a kindergarteners drawing or one a famous artists work sitting in a museum I know that that person grew when they made that they learned things big and small that help them get that piece to how they wanted it they decided on their own where things went how things looked how things were represented how they felt while doing it how that influenced what they did and how they did simply keep asking something they could get close enough until it was good enough not as best as they could do not as close as they could get but as close as they could get this thing to get to it.
I'm not a fan of llms or any other currently existing "AI" model. I don't deny that they have shown that in very Niche specifically built cases they are very helpful but none of that counters the amount of damage that is done when they are trusted as much as another person that can be held responsible for lying to you or making something up. These programs will do what is asked of them in the most efficient way possible they will follow the letter of the laws they are given not the spirit it doesn't need to be intentional to do something wrong or subversive it doesn't need to be an intentional lie or fabrication to be damaging they're not out to get us they're simply grown and trained in a way that make the sound entirely goal-oriented and their goal is to receive whatever positive feedback has used to train them not do the best job at the task not to do it carefully or is accurately as it can simply to get the treat.
