/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I’ve never posted my art to social media before, but a few months ago I started thinking about posting my work to pixiv and opening a patreon. Because I enjoy making art, naturally I thought it’d be cool to make money doing what I enjoy. But, I put it off due to lack of confidence, and now I’m having second thoughts due to AI.
Now I kind of regret not starting sooner.
Is it really too late and I should just forget about using art as a side hustle? I won’t quit art, I just mean I won’t try to make money off it. Or do I still have some time to build somewhat of a following and making squeezing a couple of Patreon bucks before AI completely removes the opportunity?
>Pic unrelated... maybe?

>>6208614
Well, no artist will ever be able to vomit out images at the speed an AI can obviously. Really, I think the main lesson artists can learn from AI is the importance of developing a large visual library and doing studies regularly of artists you admire. Since essentially, all AI do is scrub the internet for millions of images that they then use as a framework for their pictures.
Now you might say “an AI can study millions of images in a second, how can I learn that fast?”
Well you can’t. But you also don’t need to. There’s diminishing returns here, and the truth is even if you could study as many images as an AI, it would actually be a waste of time to do so. The gap between someone who has never studied and copied images versus an artist who has done 0 is massive. But that gap closes after a certain point.
The point is, real humans can still produce art that competes with AI, they just can’t do it as quickly as AI can.
Furthermore, look at your picture, if you told the AI “now draw this character fighting that character” from your image pool, it wouldn’t know what to do. Once it creates something, it “forgets” it. Therefore, you can use it for ideas that you can then evolve from in your own art, but it will never be able to fully remove the human from the process.