/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

This changes nothing except if you were trying to make money off art by selling your soul to the industry or making porn. I already came to the conclusion that pursuing an industry job was a fool's errand a couple years ago, and while I actually do respect porn artists in a way because of the freedom they have, I don't have much of an interest in doing porn as a main source of income myself. I'm just not horny enough to dedicate more than like an hour at most a day to thinking about sex and don't see how it could last in the long term.
For people that are hobbyists or learning/using drawn art as a medium in their own projects like me, this is a big nothing burger. You'll either incorporate AI into your process or you won't depending on your values and you want your art to look like. I think of it as the equivalent of tracing but maybe a bit more extreme. Yeah I could totally just trace images off google and 3D models instead of drawing everything myself, but by doing that I'm sacrificing a level of control in my art that could lead to affects on my I didn't want in the final piece. For a personal example; I don't like tracing 3D models because I've noticed it leads to figures looking stiff and lifeless most of the time, and my figures are a lot more dynamic if I just do them myself. I'm not saying art with AI incorporated into it will be the same, but I am saying that there will be some sort signature "AI look" even as the technology advances and after paint overs that'll keep me from feeling like I'm missing out by just sticking to drawing from scratch. Drawn art is an extremely finicky thing and even the slightest of changes in process WILL lead to different results big or small, which I actually think is one of the cooler things about it.

Also I want to just throw in that normies never gave a fuck about art in the first place beyond looking at it for two seconds on their Twitter feed, so being concerned about your social media is silly too and was before.