/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6421030
>Explain to me. What benefit does AI art actually offer to humanity.
Makes art easier to produce by cutting out the less creative parts of it like getting the strokes right.
>It's certainly not helping artists
It is. Filters and many other tools often involve AI and they have been immensely useful to artists. There will be "smart brushes" in photoshop and other shit that will speed up regular drawing on top of just having a "generate any kind of background" program already.
If you feel threatened by this - you were never better than these tools. Which is fine, humans are not tools by nature and you should prioritize your life. I doubt that artists will actually be hurt in the long term because that's not what happened to translators.

And more importantly, it helps everyone else with art as long as they're willing to put in some effort. I dreamed of similar shit just two years ago when I had an idea for a visual novel. I even tried fucking with the shit imgen AI we had at the time. I would have even paid an artist if the cheap ones didn't have horrendous thick-lined styles. Now anyone can just make a game, a comic, all other kinds of shit without grinding art for years.