yeah! i remember seeing those kind of semi-realism, lineless, painterly styles absolutely topping the fav charts on deviantart etc all the time! people like looking at them when humans do them well, that's why they fed them all to the plagiarism machine!

cause -> effect should not be so hard, folks

fucked up how these sorts of bad-faith criticisms elevate genAI art into having a supposed "specific style", when the reason it looks that way is by being trained off the hard work of hundreds of artists

so now their creativity is being devalued and unrecognized because a computer regurgitated it

i do still hate prospecting though. weird, exhausting process. often fruitless. it sparks no joy. like, i see the vision, i understand what it's trying to represent, i just don't love the execution