/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6895578
>Normies ate overrendered fanart up because, even if they didn't understand creativity and originality, they understood time and effort well enough
They understood "time and effort" insofar that it served "art" they were already receptive to. In other words, if it pleased the eyes or the dick, and *appeared to be* effortful, then it passed all tests. They wanted the illusion, mystification - something that appears so convincingly real that it boggles the mind, that it seems impossible for mere mortals to replicate.
They're uninterested in something that does in fact take tons of time and effort, but lacks illusion.

So the problem now, is that the illusion has been shattered by AI. Any machine can shit out visually realistic slop, "fast food". But machines can't be original, innovative. And frankly, normies were never good judges of real effort. This lame-o shit will slip through the cracks -in the production art, in the behind-the-scenes - despite the clamoring of the few. And they'll hoover it up all the same, if the illusion is convincing enough. Easier than demanding really original art.