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Comment by Timon3

2 years ago

The system lets you iterate, but you don't have to iterate to arrive at the result you want. Is that really so hard to understand?

There is no magic "paint the picture I want" button in Photoshop. There is a magic button in AI tools. This magic button does in one request what would take dozens or hundreds of commands without the magic button.

>This magic button does in one request what would take dozens or hundreds of commands without the magic button.

It very rarely does. And the more specific the request, the more work you have to do to get, at best, close to what you want. You may need to train your own model or blend models and mess with ControlNet. And then you have to do more work to fix stuff like fingers and eyes. In order to really use AI to its full potential (which still isn't, IMO, fully up to the capabilities of the software or artists it's intended to replace) you have to understand how it works, how the various filters work, how models work, etc.

Once you learn most of the really good AI generated art you find online is still heavily edited in Photoshop by actual artists you realize it's anything but magic.

  • Come on...

    >> This magic button does in one request what would take dozens or hundreds of commands without the magic button.

    > It very rarely does.

    No, it always does. You don't have to press the button 45 times in the morning and 67 times in the afternoon and 24 in the evening. You press it once, and you get a result.

    What you read was: "This magic button does in one click what you want". That is not what I wrote, and not what the author argues.

    > And the more specific the request, the more work you have to do to get, at best, close to what you want. You may need to train your own model or blend models and mess with ControlNet. And then you have to do more work to fix stuff like fingers and eyes.

    Yes, you're repeating the author's point well: the current systems have bad usability in regards to how a user expresses their intentions. That does not change that the system produces one complex result with one button click.