Looked him up. He unapologetically uses ai generated "art" (obviously) and prices them at $150. Said it could take hours sometimes (poor guy) to get the prompt right. Based out of Marblehead MA. The Arts Association there also bent over to accept ai generated "art", classifying it as "digital media".
I'm convinced that such people are just severely stupid. Because it is INCREDIBLY EASY to just describe in a prompt what you want the AI to output from the get-go. Like, only people lacking the ability to think about an image prior, lacking descriptive ability, or lacking the vocabulary to describe things would have trouble.
No, I am not generating AI stuff myself for leisure or to post, I just have deep dived enough. I have a vested interest in understanding current AI tech and how it can be exploited/misused.
In their defense Google search used to be a LOT easier to get good results. Itās amazing how many times I have to add Reddit to my query to get a page that isnāt straight ads
I agree. Stupid people have shitty imaginations; imagination is intellectual.
And because they have a severely limited imagination, they also have great difficulty with empathy, as empathy requires a minimum level of imagination. Itās also why they have no intellectual curiosity, and thus prefer a binary view of everything and accept whatever dear leader says.
At the end of the day, MAGA are just fuckin stupid. And itās created a global problem.
Tell her it took me 1 hour to make this random npc. In 2 I could make Trump with a huge dick in his mouth. It would look better than the AI garbage he posts, certainly better than his post of him flying a jet literally shitting on American citizens.
You tell her that image generators function off of stealing the actual work and styles of existing artists and that itās basically worse than communism?
Prompt "engineering" is only difficult if you cant communicate worth a shit. So it makes sense they take forever to steal one shitass collage with it.Ā
The gall to charge for ai art...but also, fairly certain that most/all nft art was AI as a way to introduce and normalize both people thinking it had value, and also the aesthetic of the "art style". Bored Apes and all that shit had very AI characteristics.
āWhether you use a paintbrush or a prompt, what matters is the artistās vision and effort,ā said Engman. āAnd now, finally, thereās a place for both.ā
He was right at first, it does matter since this takes virtually no effortā¦.
You know this stoner granny once grounded a teenager for having red eyes while she herself was high on Chardonnay mixed with huge doses of benzos or opiates from her favorite pill mill.
Name the fucking gallery. They deserve the hate. This is literal slop, it doesn't make any sense. It's like the gallery didn't care at all.
The lady is standing in front of a floating jacket, she's holding the joint weird, why did she park her motorcycle on a headstone, who buried a stoner across from the Lincoln memorial etc. No artistic merit at all.
They know itās AI, they labeled it as such. And then they still put it up and said it was worth 150 dollars. Glenn Engman must know the owner of the gallery or something.
I was gonna say, it looks like something a tourist would buy on the street at Fishermanās Wharf in San Francisco, to haul back to the midwest. āLook what I got in Cali- forn-i-aā!
They just think that trump approves of whatever they like. Since trump just talks in circles without saying anything, they hear whatever they want in it lmao
Thereās no copyright on AI art,
so why would anyone even pay for that? Just go home and make it yourself!
This is one case in art where āI could make that cheaper myselfā is absolutely true!
Targeted audience = the dumbest motherfuckers on earth. But this just gave me an idea for an absolutely moronic Trump art that will go gang busters for MAGA. THANKS OP!!!
If I had less morals around AI image generation, it would be a great business idea if those people are actually buying.
Rabid fans thatāll pay for it, 150 dollars a pop and the hardest part is going to Walmart for a print and frame. oh and hand signing my name at the bottom I guess
Trump on a bicycle, trump on a horse riding into Jerusalem, trump being a doctor, trump going karting, etc etc
Just outta curiosity, is the Washington monument not in the correct place? That sure looks like the Lincoln Memorial right next to the Washington Monument Obelisk. Last time I was in Washington DC I remember them being pretty far away from each other.
Also smoking weed on the national mall is a good way to get arrested.
Weed is sorta legal here but you cant just smoke it wherever you want.
Used to be that people could get away with pulling in couches, trucks full of beer, and tons of weed on the 4th of july at the mall, but now its all regulated and boring.
The weed headscarf is goofy when it's still federally illegal and the crusade against weed largely began due to racism. Of course an AI wouldn't consider that.
Even apart from being ai slop, this shit looks like ass and has no meaning whatsoever. And the fact that he signed it by had š these people are not artists, they are worthless
Thereās a store in the mall by me that sells nothing but AI art. I canāt imagine a single person buying from them, and I genuinely canāt imagine how they stay in business
We are wasting water and electricity and billions of dollars for that? No, ban it. I remember a day when our representatives did a thing called regulation.
something worse I encountered recently was a children's story book with all the art and text inside entirely generated by ai. Granted it was only like 3 bucks or something like that, but the thought of a child being read from that for bedtime is just so sad and devoid of any soul
Fkin cheapass propoganda. I'd hate this even if engmam painted it himself. Wtf world are we in... Fkin crapshit 'art' and A I 'novels' make up the bulk of creativity now...? What 'civilisation' levels have we reached...?
Fkme I'm happy I'm entering the last stages, really. Am SO disillusioned.
They think it's real, just like that gold Mickey Mouse coin that's $250 but marked down just for you for only $100 if you buy it in the next 15 minutes.
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u/MythicPropension Aug 22 '26 edited Aug 22 '26
$150 lmao
Also, signing it with your name? All for writing "generate patriotic image of stoner grandma - make it harder"