• Sp00kyB00k@lemmy.world
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    It is not art. It has no value. The sole thing it has is convenience for the one that generates it.

    No skill, no talent, no humanity. Nothing of value.

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    My wife has been selling handmade crocheted stuff on Etsy for a while and I am constantly catching her going through listings and getting infuriated about designs that look awesome in the photos but are unrealistic or impossible in execution, and yet people keep buying them

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      I used to make fine silver chains by hand and sell them on Etsy, and did quite well with it. Then it got flooded with drop shippers despite that being against terms of service. But you could see the biggest and most successful jewellery sellers all had identical products and if you search their product titles on Ali express or Temu it was the first result. I went from 5-10 sales which was a couple grand a month to zero the instant they stopped policing it.

      I can only imagine how bad it is now with ai. I tried to browse Etsy for something recently and there was literally pages of ai slop. I don’t think I saw a single real product.

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        I bought a 50 € “silver ring” that was made out of copper on Etsy. After it started changing it’s color and painting my finger black i searched for it on Ali and found it for 1,10 € there.

        I couldn’t revive the 5 Star rating i gave the shop, nor did they or Etsy get back to me after inquiering. After that i stopped using Etsy completly.

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          1 month ago

          How long was it? Most banks let you do a credit card charge back for at least a year after purchase.

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    Why would you pay for them when you can just generate them yourself for cheaper?

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        I mean it is a real job, and it takes a unique skill set if your actually building the workflow, tuning the model and learning the tooling.

        But it’s not the same job as artist.

        Its like comparing a stone sculpture to a welder. Both can make art but it’s two VERY different processes and results.

        The problem is the stupid ass prompt engineers are claiming to be artists and have no actual art skills. And 99% of them don’t even understand how the fuck their own tooling works, understand how to actual tune the model or even what it’s training set really is.

        They just slap words into the slop generator and call it a day

        It’s the equivalent of yeeting a paint can at a wall and calling it art.

        It’s fucking stupid

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          Stop talking. Prompting isn’t working. I know, because I do it all day.

          Everyone should just stop talking about it at this point and only look at the quality of their output. If you’re AI-assisted and your shit still sucks then that’s just you sucking shit.