Opposition to AI images is purely political friend/enemy division. If you had access to the Ghibli generator tech 3 years ago and didn't tell them about it, every single person who says "AI slop" now and thinks they're being principled would have loved it.
This. The crazy fact of the matter is the over-saturation of AI-generated content has resulted in the complete trivialization of the technology as a whole.
Go back to as recently as 2010, fuck it, 2015 and show people how this tech works. How you can take any photograph and infinitely re-synthesize it. How you can make fanart of anything, including porn, in the blink of an eye and virtually zero effort on your part. You would be venerated like a God. Your invention would be worth 8 - 9 digits at the very least. Everyone would be awed, and many would become hopelessly addicted.
Granted it sucked but Photoshop has had "content aware fill", the precursor to what we do now with a button-press, since CS5, released 15 fucking years ago.
Opposition to AI images is purely political friend/enemy division. If you had access to the Ghibli generator tech 3 years ago and didn't tell them about it, every single person who says "AI slop" now and thinks they're being principled would have loved it.
This. The crazy fact of the matter is the over-saturation of AI-generated content has resulted in the complete trivialization of the technology as a whole.
Go back to as recently as 2010, fuck it, 2015 and show people how this tech works. How you can take any photograph and infinitely re-synthesize it. How you can make fanart of anything, including porn, in the blink of an eye and virtually zero effort on your part. You would be venerated like a God. Your invention would be worth 8 - 9 digits at the very least. Everyone would be awed, and many would become hopelessly addicted.
Granted it sucked but Photoshop has had "content aware fill", the precursor to what we do now with a button-press, since CS5, released 15 fucking years ago.