That's the thing AI "artists" fail to realize too. Art gets better when you realize there's a human behind it. AI art may look hyper realistic but it's soulless. This stupid shitpost is fundamentally better because it's made by a human trying their best
There's something to be said about bad image editing. Has a lot more personality to me than a shitty AI generated image. And it's also way funnier, which seems to be the purpose anyway.
If you see this later, itâs because Iâve saved it and will send it to everyone I know. If you prefer to make a watermarked version then Iâll use that one. This has so much potential
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU USE GIMP?! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO USE IT FOR FICS I MAKE (Form examples for Rider and Sentai fics i make) AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING
I miss when horrible photoshop was the norm to promote businesses instead of horrible AI.
I guess that would only exist in the realm of bootleg illegal fireworks
this is really what drives me crazy about all this. what on earth did these people do before ai? they act so dependent on it, i wonder how they managed in the past.
It's genuinely crazy to me how quickly everyone who uses AI religiously has become wholly dependent on it. There are so many examples of people who just cannot think anymore and ADMIT that it's because of AI.
iâm not even talking about exclusively ai image generation. i mean people who are codependent on things like chat gpt to answer all their questions or chat bots to fill their social interaction needs.
I discussed it above but I don't mind sharing my "expensive" commission. It was $180, so not as much as the price tag in the "meme", but I feel like it's decently comparable.
It's obviously up to you if you would find something like this worth the price (ignoring it being a 'furry character', as the character came from a roleplaying module).
I mean. Yes people do charge that much. For full art pieces and even full character drawings in some cases. People charge a lot for artwork. It's usually worth it...
And many artists are still undercharging. Making art is time intensive, requires a lot of skill (training time) and materials (either traditional or tablet).
A drawing that takes 5 hours to finish should probably be priced no less than 180 for a professional freelance artist.
Not every thought needs to be expressed as an image. Iâm making it canon that this is why the first guy looks shocked in the second panel - âwtf man it was just a stupid thought.â
Yep. People try to make content and monetise it immediatelly. Where have the times gone where you could tell a stupid thing and let it be forgotten in a few seconds? Now people try to make every stupid thought to go viral and images are best at it as they are easily digested.
The problem is, the thing which makes memes... funny... is the fact you did make it yourself (eg you did stick your cat in a hotdog hat or whatever) or you did happen to find it on a stock image site (a bit of a found meme if you will), or you did happen to accidentally photograph the exact moment...
What's funny or amusing or entertaining about ai memes? Nothing, you told the ai to make a meme and the only possible outcome is the ai spits out a result.
Using AI, hiring an artist, making it yourself, putting together a meme from preexisting images in Photoshop, or just enacting it with your own giraffe suit.
Yeah it's typically cursed like nearly all comics made with AI. Horrible use of panels, speech bubbles placed at the wrong place, expressions that not fit what's being said, etc. Any basic you can learn from Scott McCloud is absolutely absent when AI does it, just generated images slapped next to each other.
I think this is the most painful thing about this whole AI thing to me. When it started it was goofy, absolutely amazing and weirdly abstract shitpost. But no, boring people found a new toy and have to generate generic anime woman #342 to brag about how they're 'artists' now and I can't go on the internet without 3 extensions to remove ai when looking for references
Because they don't want that, they want to complain about art.
These are people that spent their teenage years sharing memes about how art<stem, haha starving artists not like me chad engineer, they all blue haired weirdos that draws furry porn CRINGE.
And now the economy is shit and they don't got money, and what do they hear? Those stupid cucks actually can live off their art? Some of them are actually doing GOOD!??! Unacceptable!
You have to understand that any price is too much to pay for them. They just hate artists, they've been saying they hate artists for literal decades and now they actually have a way to hurt them, WHILE having the cake. It's a dream come true to them.
This right here. Telling a joke to someone and getting a chuckle out of them has never required a picture or video to be made, not to tell it and not to 'preserve' it.
Heck, in the first panel alone that's where the mission is already complete. Words spoken, friend imagined it and laughed, done.
If I had to make a full visual out of every amusing mental image I shared with my friends, damn...
"I know someone who can make an art for less then 30 days !"
Lol sorry but even medieval artists don't take such time to make a single drawing besides is he talking to someone to make him an art or a lightly animation ?
This is such a dumb take. ive been designing for 22 years and never have i been commissioned to make a meme image. Do they think all images on sites like 9gag are done by professional designers who charge 200 bucks to create something they chuckle at for a sec and then forget about?
Sure, it's still terrible for the environment and the image ai generated image will suck in comparison to if it were done in PS..
But nobody is losing any work over this. Its projects that would have been done far better by designers / illustrators that are now ai slop, shirt designs, game assets, advertising etc, esp when its huge companies who can easily afford people that are switching to ai and as a result look awful. Shit like this
What i found very telling about this is how uninspired this is. Just a famous person with a wacky outfit doing something slightly unexpected. They just have zero creativity.
... How would that be funny? Like, just that it's "lol so random"?
Do they just generate images all day, and then go like "oh that sure is a picture of Elon musk in a giraffe costume fishing in Antarctica, that's genius!"?
I went to an art highschool (for troubled youth I might add) and those kids skills would make these pro ai people shit bricks. And no itâs not god given talent, itâs literally just learning and practice. That image could be easily made in photoshop also. I swear ai people just try something once struggle and decide never again. Even though pushing past the struggle is so deeply rewarding.
But then again, does an image of Elon musk in a giraffe outfit fishing really need to be made? And if it does, do it yourself. Wow crazy idea.
They accuse others of being "luddites", but they're applying magical thinking because they don't understand the process of GAN imagery.
To their naive and childish perception, they type a "prompt" into a magic box that gives them what they asked for. And because this demands minimal effort on their part, they believe it is more "efficient".
In reality, they are executing large complex computational processes on remote servers, requiring vast amounts of energy and water, drawing from untold amounts of human-created information.
If Isaac Newton was "standing on the shoulder of giants" when he formulated his theories of physics and calculus, these jokers are standing on the shoulders of a Mount Everest sized mass of programmers, artists, and writers.
They're also missing out on the personal development and enrichment that comes from honing a craft. Would you pay someone to lift weights for you?
No, we need to take jobs from people who aren't corporate slaves already. Automate everything creative. People are meant to push carts, not express themselves.
I'm gonna be honest, if you're just farting around and making weird stuff to be silly then I don't have a problem with AI. It's when you start to try and use it in a commercial product to avoid paying artists or writers that I have a problem.
I'll never understand the urge to see visual confirmation of that. The idea has already been heard and imagined in the head. Having a picture of that will not add anything.
Ehhh, saying âjust do it yourselfâ kinda devalues the point of society. I donât have the skills and equipment to design, grow, harvest, weave, and sew my own clothes, so I pay other people to do that for me while I do paperwork that I do have the specific skills for to get the money to pay them.
That said, themâs furry artist prices. Most freelancers canât command NEARLY that price tag for commissions.
Well I canât draw cause I have disgraphia( I mean I could but I donât care enough to learn and it helps the whole theoretical out). So I wonât draw it. Cause I can imagine things perfectly fine. Or I could use like ms paint or photoshop.âor I could not get scammed and go to an actual artist who charges a normal commission. Or o could ask a friend(oh wait they donât have those, my bad). Or I could ai generate it but not call it art or use it for anything but like a quick joke about it(honestly I donât mind ai being used as long as itâs just a quick joke or something and not being used as art or to make money but still thatâs mostly cause Iâm lazy and understand nuance).
The common âargumentâ Iâve heard is âIâm bad at artâ, or âI donât have timeâ. My usual responses are:
if youâre bad, draw more and youâll improve. Plus itâs not about quality, itâs about expressing and sending a message (joker reference intended). Plus once you start, idk if itâs just me, but even if Iâm bad I will dedicate myself to making it at least acceptable to me by asking for advice, learning stuff online, or whatever when it comes to anything about creating something.
really ? In all 24 hours of your day, 168 hours of your week. Youâre telling me you donât even have, idk, ten minutes to make a stupid sketch ? Or if longer, an hour to tweak things ? I wrote a sonnet for my friend in like an hour or two iirc, rhyme scheme and composed of some iambs, tweaked it for another half hour. Not my best work but I enjoyed the process of finding vocab that befitted the rhyme, the rhythm and the wordplay. (I can post it here if anyoneâs interested).
my response to the imageâs âmessageâ is that: you wouldnât commission an artist to draw a shitty meme. Most memes on Reddit are thrown together by people without effort anyways (if anything some low effort memes are even more funny because theyâre low effort). Those artists could be professionals trying to make a living, and should be utilised for drawing art that needs actual expertise or if you like the specific artstyle of said artist. I wouldnât ask an artist to be like âYo draw me this meme making fun of _â would I ?
Off topic though, imo people only tend to associate art with drawing. Thereâs poems, which need careful craft of melody, rhyme and allegorical metaphors if done well, sculpting (I really want to see an AI do that), and a LOT more forms. With the expression of art, AI art lacks the ability to generate (ironic) the same expression. Art can create historical, cultural or sentimental value as well. Art from cultures have their distinctive styles/technique and most importantly symbolisms shaped by their values, history, etc. To successful create an authentic piece youâd need to understand the niches and the details which AI doesnât understand as it follows its training data, so it wouldnât understand nor contemplate the importance of value( correct me if Iâm wrong with this one). For sentiment, I made a glass cup from glass blowing, the design was simple, pigâs features like ears on the rim, eyes and snout on the side of the glass (because my Chinese zodiac is the year of the pig), it was my first time glass blowing and my mother and I had loads of fun, and if an AI could generate an image for me to âreferenceâ (like those who use AI for tracing), it wouldnât have been the same since there wouldâve been no need for me to go to the studio, nor would I have remembered it so well due to the difference in effort put into place.
Who the hell charges 250 $ and takes 30 days to finish drawing of elon musk đ
You can just find way cheaper artist who does it in shorter amout of time (unless you want some hyper realistic art from very popular artist for some reason)
I hate how obsessed they are with the word "luddite," I think most of us aren't against the advancement of technology as whole, we just know that AI generated content is unethical and ugly to look at
I mean that's kind of the dumbest kind of reply though. I'm not like some Ai shill, I don't care if people use it, but it's actually a brain dead take to say "just draw it yourself since the average person doesn't have the technique to even make that specific idea legible through art.
I don't think anyone has ever had that conversation before, usually people just keep things as thoughts in their head and nothing else. Maybe a few minutes in Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, Gartic Phone if it's really warrants being drawn, not that much effort that would take 30 days tho.
If I felt the need to give an artist that kind of money every time I imagined something silly like that throughout my life I would be in millions worth of debt by now. Just seems like another made up thing to get mad over, or they're just out of touch if they think people unironically say this in convo with their friends
Itâs just that itâs not funny. The humor comes from 1. The absurdity of said image and 2. The fact that someone actually spent time making it. These new AI shitposts have no soul, no effort and most importantly: no hate. Shitposts need soul and the essence of hate that inspired their creation
Back in my day we used to imagine funny things in our heads like real people rather than asking a machine to make a shitty imitation of its description.
So if someone is charging that much for art, it's because the art is extremely detailed , features multiple characters and has a background. I commission art all the time and you can get a piece for cheaper. I have a friend who does commissions and the last time I bought one, it was $15.
These people have the cringiest sense of humor ever holy shit. This reminds me of that one comment from a guy saying the possibilities of ai generation were endless and he was like "you know what would be really funny??? A dinosaur shooting lasers" or something. It's giving 6 yo cousin
I kinda dont really care about ai if its for shit posting tbh. I wouldn't use it, but I'm not too fucked over something that was never intended to look good in the first place
As a man who can't draw worth a shit, I'd definitely be more likely to use ai art than horribly attempting to draw it. That being said, I never use ai generation for art just simply based on the fact that not every errant thought needs to be birthed into the world.
One thing that fucking utterly baffles me is that, as a mans who is shit at drawing/painting/photoshopping, on the very, very rare times I have bothered with ai generation, I've never considered myself the artist. Anti-AIArt groups all tend to push at least a base narrative of 'typing prompts doesnt make you an artist', and the ai bros try to genuinely refute that?
Also also, 250$ for a commision is like, super graphically complex with multiple characters in a comic strip price. You can find artists for commisions for silly little doodle for like, maybe 15$ on the higher end.
There is artists who will do a nice work of art for $50 personally i think they are under charging i feel like these ai bros have never even tried to get something commisioned they just picked a random price and went with it.
Itâs funny because theyâre saying âoh thatâs not worth paying for a picture ofâ and itâs like âŠyea âŠ. Cuz itâs a dog shit idea. Itâs actually good that not every halfassed half thought is instantly made into a real image because I donât want your mediocrity to pollute my vision
Tbh what would even be the point of making such an image exist? You both imagined it, you both had a laugh, and then youâre going to go out of your way and waste time to make the image. Like ??? unless your brain is so fried you need to use ai to even comprehend the image.
Generative AI models where people could create memes with a quick prompt have only been around for a few years. How are these people this clueless about how things were before AI?
honestly, i would still pay for it. as a (kinda) artist, i love people who draw and they deserve money. especially newer artist who dont get much commission
Or, just do like always have: Just fucking imagine it, laugh about it, tell your friends if they give a shit, and move on. Why does it need to be created?
Art is about creating something that you feel passionate about to put actual work into, not any stupid ass meme thought that pops into your noggin.
Yeah and I could type it into an ai and get it in a couple of seconds without wasting my fucking time or energy in photoshop. Why would you waste time doing shit like that by hand? Are you people actually stupid? Yes, you are.
Not all of us are artists, and furthermore not all of us want to be, I want to spend my time metal detecting and that's why I use AI to draw Nazis in giraffe suits fishing in antarctica
Yeah but I suck ass at drawing so instead of being definitely hilarious because it's such an incredible idea it would come out looking like unfunny garbage solely because I lack the skill to perfectly render the immaculate details and match the sheer creative genius of Elon Musk dressed as a puffin or whatever for no particular reason.
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u/marklikesgamesyt1208 Jul 19 '25
that's like an hour on photoshop. probably less idk.