Do you like digi kits & elements made with artificial intelligence (AI)? Yes or No?

[prospurring]

How do you feel about digital scrapbooking kits and elements and papers and such that are made using artificial intelligence (AI)? Such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly, DALL-E, or Leonardo?

 

[Fayette]

I'm answering from a bit of a different angle, but I'll still give my opinion since I own the site

It actually depends on the element and/or paper. Some are so obviously AI - they don't get my support. Things like extra fingers/toes, weirdly shaped flower petals or leaves that aren't connected like they naturally would be or any other unnatural element that just looks wrong. Lol, we've all seen the extra hand in the weird place, etc.

I've dabbled a bit with AI, and I find that it pushes me to be a bit more creative, but it's very frustrating for me. I'm just not very good with AI prompts, and don't have the time to work on it. So, I'd rather buy CU from someone that has really learned to use it in a positive way....and some of our designers are REALLY GOOD with AI.

If a CU designer offers products created with AI, I prefer that they give it their own touch or their style. I like seeing something and knowing who created it, whether he/she used AI for part of it or not.

I do worry where AI is going in an already shrinking hobby. I hope our customers will continue to support our designers, as we have some of the most talented ladies in the digi industry on our team!

 

[prospurring]

Thank you for your thoughtful answer, @Fayette. I go back and forth about how I feel about AI. I think it's fun, and it's great for brainstorming, but I also wonder/get slightly concerned about how the AI models were trained on other peoples' art. So, I guess I don't exactly know how I feel about it. I can see very valid reasons for using it when brainstorming and creating digital scrapbook elements and kits, especially in terms of protecting the designer against copyright claims. And I have a lot of fun when I play with it. But I also don't want some other artist to be upset with me if I used AI in a design or layout. Then again, you can't please everyone all of the time; chances are someone somewhere won't like it. It just seems tricky to me. I guess, in the end, to me it's just a tool -- possibly a controversial one -- but it's just a tool.