YobaiYamete t1_j9wt1i0 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:03 AM

Reply to comment by TinyBurbz in Meta AI introduces LLaMA: A foundational, 65-billion-parameter large language model by fraktall

Midjourney looks flashy, but any "real prompt engineer" has to use Stable Diffusion imo. MJ is good for making certain images, but the sheer flexibility and power of SD completely dwarfs it by far.

MJ is great for a quick example or for people who aren't tech savvy and can't run SD, but IMO it's more of a toy while SD is a tool

TinyBurbz t1_j9wtdcb wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:06 AM

I can get decent textures out of SD, which is what I use it for.

I know this is gonna rustle a lot of feathers, but people need to not use these models to produce whole pieces. It hurts how seriously people take real artistic skills, and makes these tools look immoral.

YobaiYamete t1_j9wu8l0 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:14 AM

IMO SD and the AI tools are just fantastic compliments to the rest of your artistic kit, just like photoshop and blender etc, but are still just tools in the kit rather than the whole kit

People who think they replace artists are not seeing the real picture. The only artists they replace are the lowest end artists, and all those artists have to do is adapt to the tech and they will still be relevant too.

Even with SD I still run into tuns of situations where I need to use photoshop to tweak something or need to draw something, and I instantly run into the limit of my artistic skill, because I'm not a real artist.

Which IMO, is the gap between an "ai artist" and an actual artist. AI can make some really beautiful stuff (one of my favorites I've seen), but as soon as you need to customize it or make fine tweaks you start having to fight the AI rather than work with it