Where the hell do I even start? The AI generated image trend is getting insane, as if it wasn’t hard enough to survive as an artist here comes a machine that can not only produce “art” much faster than even the fastest artist it’s also a lot cheaper.

The biggest problem is people already didn’t want to commission off an artist, rather

“your art is so good, tell you what: you draw me this thing and I’ll share it on my page with 3 followers and tag you” but now it’s not even that anymore, I saw someone say

“Why would I pay a artist 50 to 100 dollars for a picture that probably won’t turn out the way I want when I can spend 8 dollars on a machine”

First it’s people wanting to buy NFTs because spending 30k on a money might make back the money and more to why spend on a artist when I can put words into a machine to make pictures

Which brings me to my source of frustration: the fact that actual artists are being slaughtered in the algorithm.

I like to go on Instagram and Twitter and the like to discover artists and interact with them but now I can’t find them anymore, you now have these pages that joined yesterday with like 50k followers because they could dump so much “art” making it impossible for any actual artists to keep up.

I thought this shit died with NFTs