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Yeah. i absolutely suck at art. I don't have the imagination, the skills, nor the perseverance to do it.
But using "AI" to do that? It would make me feel even worse because I wouldn't even make anything
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2025
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Dude. People are playing solo D&D with goddamn AI.
Fucking depressed the hell out of my night, so I had to scream it into some void.
Of course it would be D&D. Playing something more interesting would require commitment to a perspective.
Paranoia would be more thematically appropriate, of course.
Some expect this to results in a return of the third place. As the internet will get filled up with bots and slop, every movie is heavily written and produced with AI, people will look for something more genuine and go back to just hanging out offline.
Fuuuck. I'm so sorry you had to see that.
There is something especially charming about genuine amateur art.
When you can tell exactly what they intended to depict, but couldn't quite get there skill-wise adds something to the piece as a whole.
I love when people want to express some idea they had, so much that they're willing to put themselves out there, even though they know that the final work is not as good as it could be. To say nothing of the separate joy of following an artist and watching their work improve with time.
Sometimes the skill is drawing something that looks low effor but it's actually complex. Like these pilotredsun animation. Dude actually uses paint and photoshop and he gets some surreal results that are impossible to replicate.
Yeah it’s absolutely pathetic how much slop people are willingly consuming.
Let alone the ridiculous attempts to justify the use of these plagiarism pumps spamming the internet. Or the ones that see themselves as “seizing the means of production” fucking laughable. You aren’t a rebel using Ai, you are just another tool being used by the parasitic owning class.
Any Ai apologist can go ahead and block me.
Can I opposite of block you?
You certainly can follow accounts, and you should. Underutilized little feature.
On Lemmy?
You on mastodon? I’m really only on here and over there occasionally.
One of the best manga there is, One Punch Man, started as a webcomic with art that probably any random person could draw.
Actually, he started one punch man, in part, to get used to a new drawing tablet. The artist has less dexterity than others in their field, but an intense, nuanced, and impactful understanding of how to panel and focus and weight. They’re terrifyingly seasoned in visual storytelling from the get go, but certainly aren’t as capable as other professionals. But even then, they can take their time to produce an effect that is haunting. A lack of detail is a detail in its own right. While someone could draw their early work, they’d have a difficult time conceiving of it.
Just read the webcomic recently, and my major takeaway was never to take your capacity or lack thereof as anything more than a motivation to improve as a human being interested in participating in society. Which loops back to the post, and seems more pre-meditated than I meant it to be.
Factual tho