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   Woodshop ? (woodshophandman@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Nov-2025 14:42:48 JST Woodshop ?

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   I think this sort of thing hurts a little bit more when you already know the image that got passed through the AI gay-ification filter. It's no Mona Lisa, but it's still pretty good! It's a digital work, which I do think detracts from it, but there's still intent in each "brushstroke". This original version seems to allude to fantasy racism that is completely absent in the AI version, with a human knight shielding an elf princess from elf-haters, his fellow humans.
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/f161e760-cc71-4e09-9fea-ac18f6edc8b9
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     Woodshop ? (woodshophandman@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Nov-2025 14:42:46 JST Woodshop ?

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     Art is supposed to be transcendent. Like any craft, it should be pleasing and engaging for both the creator and the one observing it, full of deliberate intent, conviction, and committment to the piece.
     AI offers none of that. It's genuinely mass-produced slop. I knoe that term gets thrown around a lot, but that's what it is: Slop. Like the stuff you feed pigs because nobody else will eat it.
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     Woodshop ? (woodshophandman@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Nov-2025 14:42:46 JST Woodshop ?

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     Creating things is a gift. We were made in the image of God, our creator, and so we, too, are able to create things. When we create, we put our heart and soul and very being into what we make. But you have to actually be the one making it.
     You don't "make" anything with AI. You're not engaged with the creation beyond telling the computer what to do. I've seen people say "please" when they "talk" to AI generation software. Are we so for real?
     Saying that you "made" something AI made for you is like saying you "built" a house because you paid to have it constructed or you "made" something that you just ordered on Amazon.
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     Woodshop ? (woodshophandman@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 10-Nov-2025 14:42:47 JST Woodshop ?

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     I think this is a very strange phenomenon, but only because the culture it stems from is alien to me: India. A lot of different brown or spiritually brown cultures, really, but especially India.
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     Indians will pass an image through an AI render in some obtuse way of showing dominance over the original work. It's likely one of the big reasons it can be so hard to find original images through a search engine these days.
     They do this because that's they are "Inferiority Complex: The Culture". Everything they do is and has to be an attempt to get one over on everyone else, or they feel like they themselves have been defeated and humiliated. The existence if the original work of art is an insult to them if they can't "better" it. And if it weren't for AI, they couldn't. But AI lets these low-skill street shitters warp and distort the original work as they please. And even if it's worse for everyone involved, they'll claim their version is superior and eventually push that as the "true version".