this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Right, because you don't believe art has value or requires thinking. It's essentially worthless to you.
What people with a critical eye for art can tell you is that the art also has well-defined tasks with explicit perimeters and rules, and generative AI produces uncreative slop that looks amateurish if you have an eye for art. It's pretty typical for people to believe generative AI is better at tasks that they, personally, know nothing about - it's a Dunning-Kruger machine.
Sorry, but Wtf?
Did you actually read anything I wrote or just skim every other line to confirm your biases and what you wanted to see?
Did you assume that coding is my only calling or something? I rap, write fiction, poetry, and I’m into philosophy. Wtf are you on about?
I wouldn’t be pissed about it if it meant nothing to me. Did you read what I actually wrote?
The first example I gave for an art prompt had an actual artistic premise: galaxy in the shape of a candle
The thoughtless one I gave in contrast below that was “draw me a cat”
The only difference between the first two lines (in my original post) is the explicit behaviour constraint in the code assistant’s case which you wouldn’t want for a freeform creative prompt, and the fact that the image generator can’t stop to ask for advice afaik.
So what did I do wrong here?
Edit: clarity