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Made myself choose between an AI piece and a commission from a real artist...
I was looking for a fantasy landscape for my office wall and had $200 to spend. I could either use Midjourney to make something cool in 10 minutes or pay a local artist I found on Instagram for a custom piece. I went with the AI at first because it was faster, but the print just felt empty on my wall... no story behind it. Ended up reaching back out to the artist and she made me a forest scene with a hidden fox that my kid spots every morning. Has anyone else switched back to human art after trying the AI shortcut?
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the_jake9d ago
Wait, you actually went back and commissioned the artist after seeing the AI print on your wall? That's exactly what I did with a cityscape for my living room. The AI version looked fine on screen but in person it was just noise with no soul, you know? What I've learned is that AI art is like fast food - it fills the space but leaves you feeling empty after a while. The hidden fox detail your kid found is exactly the kind of thing that makes human art worth the wait and the money. My artist put a tiny hidden bird in every piece she makes and my daughter still hunts for them years later. That's a connection no algorithm can fake, man.
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emma969d ago
Small correction, it wasn't my kid that found the fox, it was my neighbor's daughter.
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zara_sanchez9d ago
Noticed the same thing with my mom's garden last week. She had this AI-generated layout plan from some app but the plants looked weird and sparse when she actually put them in. Then she found a hand-drawn plan from my grandma in an old box and redid everything. The plants look fuller and healthier now, like someone actually understood how real dirt works instead of just pushing pixels around. It's wild how we keep going back to human-made stuff for the things that actually matter. Once you see the difference in person you can't unsee it.
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