Plot twist, the “artist” is the ceo’s significant other and a $20 gpt subscription.
“His art is 100% AI generated, yet it has no extra fingers, no generic designs”
“no generic designs”
lol
Wow those are not even pretending the design’s not ripped off from Hearthstone.
fucking hell, looking at those images is a who’s who of identifying stolen imagery, over and above the milquetoast extrageneric hallmark blandness
Spoilers:
spoiler
The cards are NFTs
Outrage bait to promote their shitty NFT game.
yeah this person does not exist and pcgamer is getting suckered into providing publicity for a crypto scam, based on absolutely nothing
The cards are certainly highly detailed and I’m pretty sure that’s what they think at quality is. They unfortunately lack any kind of unifying artistic direction. The sad truth is that there’s plenty of kids out there dumping their allowance on shitty generic gachapon stuff and other similar games. This one will do just fine in that crowd while people with taste see the market for what’s good evaporate.
It happened with audio. Audiophiles hate on people who overpay for garbage and those people who but the garbage and justify the shitty market will defend their garbage like it’s their identity.
Look at Pokemon. What mattered about Pokemon has been replaced with focus group nonsense. People still buy it up.
Here’s the thing about art. If it’s got nothing to say, it’s just eye candy at best.
I’ve said this to someone else before here, and I’ll repeat it for you now: you need to look at better art
The artist is probably outsourcing the actual work to a hundred poor souls for peanuts.
Why? An AI can spit out amazing images in about 30 seconds. That’s why I’m confused with them saying they paid a person $90k for AI art. Put a description in the chat box with a $20 per month subscription and get exactly what is on these cards.
An AI can spit out amazing images
where are they? these cards look like shit
i’m quite sure you can point us to at least one such image. (one’s enough, thank you.)
Every image on every post in this community was created through simple word prompts using AI generators:
https://lemmy.ca/c/thelyricsgame
Edit: here, I created these two images for you in about 30 seconds using the following prompt:
Create a playing card that looks similar to a magic the gathering card. The card should be titled “Fortress”. Use an epic looking tortoise to for the image of the card, using the artistic style from the Hearthstone game. Give it some flavor text indicating that it boost’s your defensive attributes
Some basic editing could be used to add the title, and update the flavor text. Or I could spend another 2 minutes getting the AI to do that itself.
can you tell me in your own words what makes these images “amazing”? three paragraphs, no llm output, and i assume you’re familiar with basic drawing principles?
yep, looks like shit to me
K
So are you going to share any of those amazing images, or…?
You’re surrounded by technology that was barely a dream ten years ago, and you’re so jaded with cynicism that you can’t even see the possibilities. K. Good luck with that.
oh do shut the fuck up and take your lazy shit with you
On the off chance you see this later (perhaps in rageclicking to see why you can’t post here anymore), it’s actually quite the inverse that applies: I’m remarkably optimistic (surprisingly so, given all the shit in the world). This post recently crossed my feed and it applies rather well.
But to really spell it out for you: you’re carrying water for extremely harmful systems, built out at scale with no true regard for their present or future impact on people, the environment, or the world otherwise. And you wandered in here. Congratulations on being given a lesson. I hope you learn from it.
But to really spell it out for you: you’re carrying water for extremely harmful systems, built out at scale with no true regard for their present or future impact on people, the environment, or the world otherwise.
what really makes it awful is not only is all that true, but (at risk of sounding like a broken record) the output really is fucking garbage. we got, what, two awful fucking cards that manage to look more generic than hearthstone, aren’t the right size (and one of them just has a fragment of a hearthstone screenshot in the background? wonder where it got that from!) and artistically start at bland and get worse the more details your eyes and brain notice.
and for fucking what. so this shithead can come here and do the lazy plagiarist “uhhh this only took me 30 seconds but it’d be good if I took 2 more minutes bro I swear” shit that doesn’t work when you’re a high schooler passing off a Wikipedia article as your own work and sure as fuck doesn’t work as an adult? all the machine does is enable labor exploitation on a mass scale, burn an already fucked planet, and steal, and this, right here in this fucking thread, AI art shithead included, is the result? what a fucking waste.
