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Creating art is creating art. Back in the day you had to mix your own pigments and put those on a canvas. Now you can buy pigments and canvas, or skip that altogether and go digital. That doesn't make digital art any less art. It's the same thing with AI art. It's another tool for us to use.

New tools come up for professions ALL THE TIME, and it's up to people in those fields to figure out how to roll with it. This tool is out of the box and it's not going back in.

What we should be asking now is how do we ETHICALLY use this tool? Well, probably by crediting people. Licensing any copywritten material that needs it. Don't use it to make gross shit like deep fakes or direct rip-offs. Which, just because it's easier to do these things with an AI, doesn't mean they didn't happen with Photoshop etc.

There's also more nuance to the process than "type a prompt get image." That works, but it'll get you shit, inconsistent results. You still have to play around with the image, adjusting parameters and sometimes even loading it into a "real" image manipulation software.

To give you an idea of how I personally am using stable diffusion, I've been using it to generate a few dozen images that look like a character in going for. I'll grab those images, edit them, and then use them to train my own LoRA (a kind of mini, specific, model) to use for future generation of that character. It's actually work, just work I'm better at than manipulating images manually.