Hit 2,000 AI art pieces in my portfolio last month and it made me rethink what counts as skill

I was just tracking output for fun, but seeing that number made me wonder if the real creativity is in the prompting and curation, not the generation itself, has anyone else hit a milestone that changed how you see your own work?

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king.eric1mo ago

Why does hitting a big number like that make it feel weird? I used to be all about the technical side of making art, you know, learning to paint and draw. But after generating about 500 pieces myself, I realized the magic was really in finding the right words and picking the best ones. The prompting process feels more like being an art director than an artist, and that changed my whole view on what skill actually means. Now I spend way more time on curation than on the actual generation, and that feels like the real craft. Does that matching up with how you're feeling about your own work?

nguyen.blake1mo ago

500 pieces and you just figured this out now? lol. Bro I felt that shift after like 30 generations, I was already in full "okay which of these 50 weird cats do I keep" mode.

samk771mo ago

Yeah, I read that whole thing Eric said about feeling more like an art director and that really stuck with me. I saw a post from a curator at a digital art museum who said the same thing, that the real shift is from maker to selector. It makes sense because when you're sorting through hundreds of outputs, that's where your eye and taste really come into play. I think the skill just moves from your hands to your judgment, which is still a skill but a totally different one. It's weird at first but once you get used to it, it feels just as legit.