Back in Fandom Stocking someone was gifting the same story, no changes, to every LOTR fan for years.
The flood of generic and samey stuff that Amazon wants to hook me on so I subscribe to Vella is already too much for me. And yeah, like the blogpost you linked said, ai stuff is super generic.
I went to well funded schools and somehow barely had any art. I didn't really have any in high school. We had an art class technically, but either no instruction or barely any. It was often treated like a study hall. I can't remember if we had instructed art in middle school... but one good effect of years of photography is that a lot of things in images stand out to me. And honestly, the degree to which people accept obviously edited images as real is insane... but also if you point anything out about it they get pissed off at you.
This is why I don't do long exposures. Other photogs can recognize them, most people think water just.... looks like that in Oregon? WTF? That is exactly why I use a Lensbaby if I am going fanciful stuff. It's a visual grammar, it makes the image having effects obvious. I know this isn't a big deal, but just having that as a baseline makes all the 'how will we trust pictures now?' stuff extra insane.
I am just trying to keep my head down and work on my own stuff. I know ai can't come close to what I am trying to do... if my tastes were more generic my life would be very different and maybe I wouldn't even be so motivated to write in the first place!
But also a lot of the stuff people are frustrated with and use ai to help nudge them along... this is why writers tend to work in groups to chat about things to get past blocks or fill in details. Fuck, I wish I had a group. Oh well.
I wonder how many people are selling 'how to use ai to make books for passive income' BS video right now...
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The flood of generic and samey stuff that Amazon wants to hook me on so I subscribe to Vella is already too much for me. And yeah, like the blogpost you linked said, ai stuff is super generic.
I went to well funded schools and somehow barely had any art. I didn't really have any in high school. We had an art class technically, but either no instruction or barely any. It was often treated like a study hall. I can't remember if we had instructed art in middle school... but one good effect of years of photography is that a lot of things in images stand out to me. And honestly, the degree to which people accept obviously edited images as real is insane... but also if you point anything out about it they get pissed off at you.
This is why I don't do long exposures. Other photogs can recognize them, most people think water just.... looks like that in Oregon? WTF? That is exactly why I use a Lensbaby if I am going fanciful stuff. It's a visual grammar, it makes the image having effects obvious. I know this isn't a big deal, but just having that as a baseline makes all the 'how will we trust pictures now?' stuff extra insane.
I am just trying to keep my head down and work on my own stuff. I know ai can't come close to what I am trying to do... if my tastes were more generic my life would be very different and maybe I wouldn't even be so motivated to write in the first place!
But also a lot of the stuff people are frustrated with and use ai to help nudge them along... this is why writers tend to work in groups to chat about things to get past blocks or fill in details. Fuck, I wish I had a group. Oh well.
I wonder how many people are selling 'how to use ai to make books for passive income' BS video right now...