AI is not your work (Patreon)

ok, so lets play a game.

this is jill. jill is a character that is very popular right now with the DAZ community. people get lots of views cause she is a known and well liked character. so makes sense to use her. these are all 3d renders done in daz.

now my question is, how many different artists did i use up here to create this collages. is it 1? is it 8? or is it something in between?

now when people talk about AI, they say, "this is not your work. if i use the same prompt as you i get the same results". which i agree with. but i dont see a problem there, which other people seem to have. cause to me, i know no one can tell me how many different artists there are up here. these are all the same, all daz renders, all using the nvidia render engine, all using the same character. yet this is somehow not a problem, but using AI is. and the more im having this discussions with people the more i get to the point, that people dont really have a good understanding of what digital art exactly entails. even when they do it themselves.

now i could be completely wrong, but the way i see it, digital art, is a way of expressing yourself by using external software to create an image (or a 3d print or an animation). we not drawing lines, like traditional artists do. we use software to draw that line. wither that is a 3d render, photoshop, or now AI. and with that, cause we use software, the line that i created, can be created by you as well, as long as you know how i set it up and which settings i used. so that goes for a simple line made in photoshop, but also for a fully complete AI generated image. or for using a (smart)filter inside adobe software, or setting up a gloom effect inside a daz render. we will always have the same results as long as we use the same settings and same content. yet, somehow people find it all wrong when they talk about AI and find it perfectly fine everywhere else, which is really weird to me, cause isnt all the same thing?

now please, im not calling out anyone in particular. i just think this is a discussion we really need to have, cause together we decide what the future looks like, so lets make it a good one together!