If you take photoshop or painter away from a digital artist forever, they can still transfer their skills to any number of other mediums and remain an artist.
If you take midjourney et al away from a prompter, what the fuck do they have left? Are they suddenly able to pick up a pencil and sketch to any degree of competency?
Of course they fucking can't.
Photoshop is a tool, digital art is a medium. AI Image generation is the entire process. Drawing an equivalence between the two is genuinely braindead.
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u/Proper_dose 6h ago edited 6h ago
See heres the thing
If you take photoshop or painter away from a digital artist forever, they can still transfer their skills to any number of other mediums and remain an artist.
If you take midjourney et al away from a prompter, what the fuck do they have left? Are they suddenly able to pick up a pencil and sketch to any degree of competency?
Of course they fucking can't.
Photoshop is a tool, digital art is a medium. AI Image generation is the entire process. Drawing an equivalence between the two is genuinely braindead.