Post #1145016 · Elektrine

2026-04-13 08:59 UTC

Yes the energy consumption is bad. My main gripe about LLM generated art is that it will not be original. It will use its training data from uncredited artworks to generate it. Art usually is made by humans to express something or convey something in a creative way. LLMs fail at that. What LLMs can actually be helpful at is making learning art more accessible to everyone. Art schools or private art classes can be expensive. This lowers the barrier to entry. As for you using generated Art is that the it might be really beautiful but it will be very difficult to maintain that style and even more difficult to convince that it is your style. The Artist doesn’t get much recognition with LLM generated art. Using it as a critique also seems stupid because LLMs will aways try to give an objective view on it than subjective. Your art won’t trigger an emotion in it and might say it is bad or “do this to make it more understandable” — that’s where you lose as an artist. My mom likes to paint as a hobby. What she does it searches stuff on Pinterest (which is mostly LLM Generated). She uses it as an inspiration to do it in her own style and maybe give it some spin. She keeps all of it for herself.

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@MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 2026-04-13 22:00

I'm a writer. I got paid to write on a few things here and there, but mostly there are just huge barriers for people without connections. I plan on using AI to turn my writing into a visual animated format for people to consume. I don't much care about the style of art, I just want my work to be seen. I can't afford to pay for artists. If I could, I would. But at least, this would give me an opportunity to show my work without some execs saying no a hundred times. When I look at the art for cartoons in the 70s/80s, there is so much crap animation with mistakes and duplications, you would think it's "a.i. slop." I understand that these were done overseas, pumped out quickly so quality control was overlooked for speed... but it wasn't the animation I was interested in, it was the stories and characters. I still think original artists will continue to exist. A.I. is just another tool. People will get bored of the same old stuff and want originality. I really hope it'll make our lives better in the long run, but we're just in the weird middle stage of A.I. crawling before running.

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