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A photographer friend in Portland said my AI art was just 'fancy collage'
He argued it wasn't creative because the AI just mixes existing images without intent. I started writing detailed prompts about mood and story, not just looks. Has anyone else shifted their process after getting real criticism on what makes art?
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kim.nina1mo ago
Portland photographers can be so stuck in their old ways. Honestly, the intent is in writing the prompt and guiding the output. Calling it just a collage totally misses the point of the work.
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elliotm571mo ago
Ugh, this happens with every new tool. People get stuck on the old way of doing things and miss the actual skill involved now. It's like saying driving a car is just "pointing it" because you didn't build the engine. Or that using a word processor is just "typing" because you didn't invent the alphabet. The craft shifts, but that doesn't make it less real.
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max_brown1mo ago
Honestly, I used to be right there with the Portland crowd on this. I thought it was just fancy clip art. But then I tried making some myself. The amount of back and forth, tweaking tiny details in the prompt over and over, it's a real process. It's less like pasting pictures together and more like trying to give exact directions to a painter who can't see what you're seeing. Getting one good image can take hours of those small changes.
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