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If AI struggles with fingers, it struggles with every other part of anatomy. The common eye doesn’t notice when specific proportions look wrong, but it may look weird or uncanny without a direct reasoning for why it looks unnatural. Artists should be referencing real art.

Excelent point, also! ^^

Alternatively, people who can't draw can try learning some editing skills and dive into picture manipulation. Or just add effects to a photo and make it look like a drawing. GIMP is a free software that is similar to Photoshop and I have been using it for decades. I think there are also older versions of PS that are free to download.

Enas:
I actually disagree a lot with two things here!

Artists' careers are not in danger because of AI, for basically two reasons. One is that capitalism is the danger, that is because capitalism is the only system where a process becoming more efficient can be directly destructive for some people. And two, if your job *really* is threatened by AI, that means your job is not importand after all. WAIT! hear me out:

Im not saying that Artists are not importand (Im one ahah!). Im saying that, a lot of the time, what we mean when we use the word "Art" is really, just content. Simple-minded enough that having a human do it has really not much more, in terms of utility, than leaving it to the AI.

Also, i have to point this out. "AI's footprint" is too vague, most AI models can run on your average computer! The reason OpenAI and other tech companies have such a high footprint is because they intentionally have developed models that are very inefficient. That is just an attempt to make the upfront costs of setting up a company with AI service so big that nobody else can join in that market. Effectively securing an oligopoly for these tech giants.

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For the first thing, its not very objective. Im basically describing the logic by which an observer might think of "Art", said observers are people who pay for it, for example.[/quote]

I'm also a working artist as well as in college, and I just did a semester's long project on AI arts carbon footprint. AI uses up nearly the same amount of energy as the country of Japan and will surpass that amount by 2027.

The computers and databases used to power AI use up so much water for cooling in places where droughts are rampant, and if they can't be cooled then the computers literally melt. Not to mention the toxic fumes produced from these processes.

I don't think a good reason for partaking in AI gainer art because "someone else did it" is a good reason to do it (if your friend jumped off a bridge etc).

Hire artists or learn to draw, AI is terrible for the environment and steals from artists globally. You'll be better off for it.

I meant for lighting, proportion, basic shapes, and poses. Not for entire subject matter.