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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’m conflicted here. Your first paragraph initially opens the loophole “but AI art” could be the medium in which the artist is expressing themselves. So poor prompting could be beautiful too, in a way. I’m sure photographers of the past felt this way about software post editing when that became popular.

    The results may be good to many viewers but apalling to anyone who can tell the difference. If the results don’t matter, does it matter if AI slop is “bad”?

    The prompt may have been beautiful, and the process of learning and finding the right tools (i.e. choosing the right model) is akin to the struggles of any artist in learning their craft.

    /devil’s advocate



  • Not 200 %. Maybe 5-10 %. You still have to read all of it to check for mistakes, which may sometimes take longer than if you would have just written it yourself (with a good autocomplete). The times it makes a mistake you have lost time by using it.

    It’s even worse when it just doesn’t work. I cannot even describe how frustrating it is to wait for an auto complete that never comes. Erase the line, try again aaaand nothing. After a few tries you opt write the code manually instead, having wasted time just fiddling with buggy software.