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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I can’t say I know or have heard of anyone who is “hiding” their use of AI to avoid “the mob” or whatever lol. Most designers don’t talk about it because they use AI in completely boring, irrelevant ways, and virtually none of them would care to tell you about whatever tool they used regardless of whether it was AI or not. Nobody is showing off a brand new logo they created and calling it “InDesign-Assisted” nor is anyone using generative fill to extend a landscape photo by 6% or remove a weird cloud going to call it “AI-Assisted.”
You’re just applying a small section of the gripes and a small section of the use-cases far too broadly. When I see people going off on AI stuff on Instagram it is ALWAYS something that is very obviously AI, even if it’s not technically “bad.” Good designers don’t let that happen.
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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a beautiful and amazing crafted game with a small team of developers and the most awarded game in The Game Awards history, was barred from winning the Indie Awards after winning for confirming of use of AI in part of their development process after anti-AI internet sleuths turned it into a major controversy.
https://news.instant-gaming.com/en/a...s-for-using-ai
That use was a texture placeholder generated by AI early on for a few posters that accidentally made it to the released game and were patched out within a week with human made textures. This 'discovery' instantly nullified the award and caused the game to get review bombed and brigaded by people who never played the game with a witch hunt solely on figuring out what if anything in it is "AI slop", just so they can get outraged by it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comme..._clair_obscur/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/19033...4077953980234/
All this...for a couple of textured posters that you would have to go out of your way to look and pixel peep to find in a game full of reused and generic textures and faces, to point the finger at and yell out "AI".
https://www.reddit.com/r/expedition3...ve_ai_in_this/
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In terms of the reaction, it’s because it’s not just about the tool, it’s about how it is used and who it is used by. A skilled craftsman shortening their work by using AI to handle menial/time consuming tasks is significantly different than a freelancer who has no business charging a dime using AI to do 95% of the work.
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That is in your eyes and opinion though (a reasonable opinion), which doesn't necessarily match everyone's outlook on it. A grounded person can objectively see the difference between generative AI slop and understandable AI use, but in the creative community there is a significant number of hardcore anti-AI advocates with 100% anti-AI stance regardless of use. The premise being that using AI to generate anything regardless or use is taking pay or a job from a real artist
A truly bad AI slop example is the posters used at the Farmer's Market and should be rightfully ridiculed. But in the use example you provided, those benign and boring tasks done through AI is still considered a huge taboo and vilified and seen as equal in hate deserving.
And the irony is that generative AI is so embedded within products like Lightroom, Photoshop and Premiere Pro, that anti-AI creatives likely use it themselves but will personally rationalize it because of some of the reasons you mention (that they have the skillset to do manually, etc). Yet tools like the spot healing tool were built through machine learning, which is essentially the same thing. Machine learning is quite literally AI.
The anti-AI hate is so prevalent that Anti-AI art and AI training poisoning is now a subset of itself, with groups and subreddits dedicated to it.
You see a difference between AI created and AI assisted, but that view of nuances is not shared by everyone and those who hate on anything AI regardless of context.