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I thought AI art was just a gimmick until I saw a piece win a local contest
A gallery in my town had a digital art contest last month, and the winner was a piece made with an AI tool called Midjourney. I was ready to write it off as cheating... but then I saw the process video. The artist spent over 80 hours doing in-painting, editing layers in Photoshop, and fixing weird AI hands. It wasn't just typing a prompt. It completely changed my view on what that tool can be. Has anyone else had their mind changed by seeing the actual work behind an AI-assisted piece?
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susan_adams2mo ago
What contest was it?
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gray8752mo ago
Right? That process video is key. It shows it's more like a weird new paintbrush than a magic button. Makes you wonder how many other winners are actually hybrids.
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80 hours of fixing AI mistakes just proves the tool is still broken out of the box, not that it's a legitimate artistic medium. Watching someone babysit bad anatomy and texture glitches in Photoshop is just damage control, not creation. The whole exercise feels like putting lipstick on a pig and calling it a new breed of livestock.
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