Raw LLM Responses

I appreciate the comfort this brings, between your and Adam's messages I can gather a lot and center myself to look forward with a more focused viewpoint in a way. What crushed me the most has been the fact that I can't have inspiring conversations about art with people that aren't artists themselves. The eternal "joke" of the "make art" button. I'm 32 at this point. I've seen the shifts and remember welcoming digital media so much because I could just save money to buy traditional paint later and whenever I'd make improvements digitally, because of the constraints I would become more observant and focused and therefore better with my traditional. Those were wild times back in the 90's with all the changing technology around us. Now that's the factor where I worry. Talking to a person who I'm acquainted, not super friends but in amicable terms in general I got the feeling that they could not understand what it meant for me to choose where to put a brushstroke. What it means to me to evoque a feeling. They got so centered on the fact that they could sell something pretty to look at that I was looking at someone who was in my face telling me that everyone should sell their AI generated images because it was the same as I had experienced. And I wonder how this person couldn't see that I was about to break down into tears, the fact that they were telling me right there and then that I didn't matter. What I learned that day is that there's some people who can't put themselves into our shoes, its just a pretty thing to be monetized with us as the offering. Also I know that can be taken as if I really disliked machine learned software. Honestly as I heard Adam say, having a vast way of getting the exact reference I'm looking for is a dream so I think that that's how I want to adapt to it, as a way to explore and learn... but sell it? I wouldn't sell my perfect reference at all, because it's just a stepping stone to something I have yet to create, it's not a finished piece by any means. I am glad you addressed that we are facing competition already that can be crushing but I would also raise the question here: The person out there who became a prompter that has never had to learn fundamentals in their life that has their eye not to learn and have fun but to use the software as a means to an end. Do you think it's a good thing that that person selling their prompted work has taken away my chance at selling a commission or a print? Not that I think you think it, I can hear hurt there so its something we have to surrender to fight through. This at its core comes down to regulation. I do worry for my students from when I was a teacher, especially the younger ones, seeing how they could've just never come to my class to learn anything. I fear for them to feel regret. I fear for them to see that on top of fighting algorithms they have to fight greedy individuals. Not companies, not big rich people in power. Individuals. Those who had a choice not to sell something modelled after the vast web and in spite of knowing it (talking about midjourney mostly here) would call people who have spent their lifetime honing a craft whiny babies amongst other...not so good things. I had to leave the midjourney discord server cause the whole place is not moderated, they let violence dominate without nuance. I would love to see a round table platformed by one of you here on YT, talk to incredibly small creators and hear their situations with this. How in the global south, we have become the example of what a starving artist is like because if we don't get out of the country or get big enough to break the boundary of our origin, we just disappear. I know its a tall ask but some of us even, as is my case, became bilingual JUST to access the inaccesible. An industry that doesn't value the fact that we exist in most of our countries. So this, to us all down here, I *do* think its a major oversight on the part of many. At the end of the day I'm happy we finally have a tech that can revolutionize how we work certain things but I'm hopeful the world will regulate it in a way that we can enjoy it and people can enjoy it without taking for granted all the years we've taken to learn something. Thank you for your insight on things and being this my first comment I'd rather enjoy your channel and your conversations!