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Commissioned a human artist vs fed a prompt to an AI for a family portrait
Last month I needed a birthday gift for my mom, something personal. I spent $200 on a local artist from Craigslist to paint a picture of our three kids playing in the backyard. She sent me sketches first, asked for adjustments on the hair color and the dog's position. Took three weeks but the final thing felt real, like she actually saw my kids. Then my brother used Midjourney for his share of the gift, typed in "three kids playing, backyard, warm colors" and got a nice image in five minutes. But it was generic, the faces didn't look like anyone specific, and the dog had six legs in one version. I get the appeal of speed and zero cost, but for something that's supposed to capture a real moment, the human work just hit different. Anyone else tried both and felt like the AI version misses the soul of the actual people in the picture?
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kai_chen24d ago
Ngl you overpaid for something an AI could've fixed in five minutes.
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brooke_jones4d ago
Oh MAN this reminds me of when my cousin tried to fix his sink with YouTube tutorials.
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the_alice4d ago
My cousin flooded his whole kitchen and blamed the plumber guy in the video for "lying to him"... @kai_chen2 I bet an AI could have told him to just call a pro in the first place though.
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