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Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art"
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Yeah I'm pretty against AI art as a replacement for human art, and for it's job destroying potential, but I have friends who play around with local models, and their setup reminds me visual programming, where you move blocks of logic around.
That's probably ComfyUI, one of the more popular open source tools. You are right, it is visual programming. Mixing text, reference images, and a lot of other items into models to output images. I can easily see someone spending hours to get a single image out of it, but then it becomes a bit of a reusable pipeline. It's a cool tool, and, if as someone else in this comment chain said that art is a study of choice, then the output is arguably art. I'm not sure I'd go that far with it, but I have a hard time calling my programming art as well, although it meets most of the definitions of it, and is certainly a creative act.