TIL my friend's AI portrait went from a normal guy to a purple-skinned elf king in about 2 minutes because he typed 'make it more fantasy'.

It made me wonder if the 'artist' is the person typing words or the program making the picture, so what do you all think actually counts as the creative act here?

5 comments

5 Comments

ivan7742mo ago

Typing "make it more fantasy" is hardly being an artist. The real creative act is the program trying to figure out what that even means.

rileygarcia2mo ago

But the person typing still has to give the right direction, you know? They're picking the vibe, the style, even the tiny details sometimes. The program makes the picture, but the human is making all the key choices. That's still a creative job.

xena_bailey181mo ago

That's the part people miss. You don't just type one thing and get the perfect image. You have to keep tweaking it, fixing the hands, adjusting the lighting, cutting out the extra fingers. It's like a really frustrating game of telephone where you're describing what you want and hoping the program gets it right. Sometimes it takes 50 tries to get one good image out of it. So yeah, the program does the heavy lifting, but you're still the one steering the whole thing.

spencera772mo ago

Exactly... like telling a genie "be cooler.

dylan_brown301mo ago

Giving the right prompt to a program is still directing the art, just with words instead of a brush.