I'm not an artist. If I sketch something, and have an ai upscale it for me, is it still slop, vs just asking it to do everything? (lemmy.world)

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I am genuinely trying to get better at art. I'm not there yet (likely never will be), the lying machine is still better than me.

The context:

This is my sketch.

And this is what the ai output.

I like to think I poured my heart and soul into it. I know there are people who will tell me that I'm terrible for using ai at all. I'm also sorry if this is the wrong community to ask this question (ask reddit would delete my post instantly if I tried to post there).

Again, is this slop? I am not an artist. I drive a forklift real good, that's my skillset. So if I were to use the ai upscaled version for my book, well, I'm asking for opinions.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 0 points 4 months ago

This probably isn't the answer you want to hear, but yes, I still consider it slop.

Not everyone is an artist, and that's okay. Just do your best, and even the worst chicken-scratch doodles are better than what any AI craps out.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

That's not "upscaling". That's having the AI color it in for you. Like a comic artist who has a colorer (person that literally does that).

Upscaling just makes the image bigger (resolution-wise). It uses the same exact technology as regular AI image generation though 🤷

There's degrees to everything. AI haters are at the point where they're arguing with digital artists over what counts as art and it's getting insane.

[-] glitchdx@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I think this helps, but I'm not sure what to do with it. Of course, I'm going to keep practicing, and eventually I won't need ai to help me anymore, but between now and then...

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[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip -1 points 4 months ago

I would, at minimum, disclose the use of exactly what AI did for you if you were to sell your art.

I would also assume that anything you put into an AI model is now being absorbed by that model, so now your art is copied and available for the AI to replicate. That's something most artists aren't OK with.

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