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  • A few days ago I saw a comment say something like "what if I poured my heart and soul into the prompt to get the AI to generate exactly what I imagined in my head?"

    To that I say: "None of that emotion will be translated by the AI. It would be more artistic for you to try your best and still make something that doesn't at all resemble what you imagined, because at least you actually put yourself into it, making it actually art and not just what amounts to a corporate logo."

    • I think this question sidesteps something even more fundamental. Pouring your heart and soul into describing a world through words is creative writing, and obviously has artistic merit in and of itself. Why is creative writing such an apparently unworthy art form, that all of that effort would be better off tossed into the trash, and replaced by a machine generation based upon it instead?

      If you genuinely have the desire and capacity to write in depth about worlds, and things that happen within them, simply posting that writing would be wonderful. Visual mediums are not the end all be all of artistic expression, or human communication in general. I write comments and express my ideas through words all the time, and I appreciate when humans do the same for me in return.

      • Because in this case, they're writing a prompt. Prompts for AI aren't exactly creative writing. They're basically a series of keywords or tags. Figuring out which keywords work to get the thing to generate what you want isn't really creative, either.

        • Yeah that's totally fair. I was trying to steelman the position of the prompting being a labor of love through intensive writing, because I felt that granting this falls flat, and seemingly treats writing as unworthy compared to a purely generated visual interpretation. I entirely grant that in reality, a prompt is about as creative as placing an order in a restaurant.

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