Starless 
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Everyone knows that AI can now generate art thanks to tools like Craiyon (formerly DALL-E) and shit. Creating art has never been easier because now you don’t even have to draw or make anything yourself. All you have to do is enter a few words and the AI will do all of that work for you. In a few years once the AI has been trained more, will it completely replace human artists? Is AI-generated art going to be that good? I hope not.
I hate what’s happened to society. Everyone wants things faster. Nobody is content with what we have. Everyone always wants more. Let’s say Derpibooru is still around in 10 years and I’m still on here (I hope not. I hope I get a life) uploading my own art that I drew myself, and Derpibooru is just as active as it is now with hundreds of images still being uploaded each day. Will most artists be gone and replaced with AI-generate art? Will users think I’m insane for drawing shit art myself when I could just type in a few words and generate art? I could imagine them talking about how AI-generated art is so convenient and not being able to imagine actually drawing the art themselves. This is almost like how Amazon and Ebay became popular and everyone stopped going to stores just because it was online, or everyone using streaming services like Netflix and Spotify instead of buying and owning physical media just because it was online. What happens when AI starts doing everything? What if AI-generated music became a thing? Because if AI-generated music became a thing, and people stopped creating music themselves, then I would give up on music entirely. Maybe AI will take over every job and replace humans for everything imaginable.
Okay so I am getting off-topic, but I hope AI-generated art doesn’t completely take over and replace human art, but I fear that will happen since everyone seems to like this. Maybe I just hate change and wish things were back to the way they were many years ago.
Artists put their heart into the images they create and have complete control over what the end result looks like. AI is heartless. You’re letting a soulless machine decide what art looks like for you. I get that drawing is hard, and I of all people would know that given how hard it was for me to upload art on here over the past two years. You all think I should just give up with art and if I want to see more Coloratura art or anything else, to type a few words into a fucking AI prompt?
I have spent two years improving my skills, learning how to upload art that doesn’t completely suck. Just recently I finally got a tablet so I can draw by hand instead of using a mouse and have been learning how to use that (which is hard since it has no screen, but still much easier than a mouse and I can draw more quickly). I’ve been continuing practicing for hours and improving my art, took some advice from an old thread hoping that maybe now I can draw better and my art won’t suck. I don’t want all of this to be for nothing. I did not get a tablet and spend hours drawing just to be replaced by a soulless machine, to be told “hey you should quit making art and use Craiyon lol can you imagine actually drawing something yourself? I can’t”.
The worst part about this is everyone will love and support this and there’s nothing we can do to prevent AI-generated art from completely replacing human art. We could add the “machine learning generated” tag to our filters and hide that so at least we don’t have to look at this shit, but that would just be running away from the problem. We never needed AI to generate art for us. Why all of a sudden would we need it now?
