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That's the point of hiring an expert isn't it?

The problem is that it clogs up the ecosystem of human practitioners that it stole from to exist in the first place.

It's not about what looks fine, it's about having professional standards and understanding the contours of the medium as we know they exist today. Settling is lazy, and these people are hoisting that laziness and lack of concern for visual polish on the public. Instead of getting a high quality product from someone who built up an understanding and expertise, we get poorly considered slop, and more of it too. These people aren't serious about creating a cultural artifact, they just want to get to the end goal as quickly as possible so they can sell it.

These models always create pixel art that looks like garbage because the people using it don't know enough about the medium to properly judge the output. This article is no exception. If you want pixel art for your project then learn or hire someone with that expertise

Don't be naïve

A ream of printer paper and 5 fineliners are about $10 and there's tons of online tutorials. Nobody is gatekeeping Art you just refuse to try actually doing it.

I'm not just talking about programming. If you want to give up doing your job to Anthropic and OpenAI, that's your business, just get the hell out of other fields that weren't asking for your help.

No dude I'm good. I respect my peers in art too much to use a machine that was built by stealing from them.

You people don't care about human mastery or excellence at all. So what if we produce more stuff cheaper and faster? That wasn't the problem. We're making it harder for people to get rewarded for genuine effort and dedication and in exchange for alienating us from our work we get a lot of lower quality crap. It sucks!

I’m truly so tired of hearing opinions about art from people who don't participate in or practice it