"Found art" is a niche that's irrelevant to most 2d-image art, as a producer or consumer. And that's all text prompting / inpainting / etc is at this point. Vag

"Found art" is a niche that's irrelevant to most 2d-image art, as a producer or consumer. And that's all text prompting / inpainting / etc is at this point. Vague, overbroad suggestions to the AI that leaves all the interesting and meaningful decisions and choices in the hands of latent noise. I find illustrations, amateur or professional, interesting and engaging because people's style heavily reflects what they value in the imagery they create - deliberate choices made in pursuit of depicting or conveying an aesthetic, a theme, a subject-category, an idea, a notion. Paths taken in developing their skill = style. Current AI image generators are too blunt of an instrument to be a part of that process. The communication capabilities / concept space of image-gen AI needs a couple more paradigm shifts before it can join the pantheon of tools for "making better art". That means pursuing what they really want to depict, not filling space on the canvas with the AI's vague notions of it. Right now "style" in AI art is just a shorthand for surface-level LORA-ripoffs of existing artists, and attempts to statistically blend them together.