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74. You said your art isn't just AI, and that the AI images you got just by typing in

a few words as a prompt were only "the base" and you did some work with each picture after the AI created the image for you.

But the MLK image, for instance, still has a number of obvious AI artifacts in the sky, and not just the headless bird Quixote1818 pointed out in reply 26. One of those things in the sky thrown in by the AI looks like a flying starfish with a red cone attached, and three smaller AI glitches are even less identifiable. There's a large orange blotch in one corner of the sky. MLK's jacket is black on one side and reddish brown on the other. And if the orange and reddish colors are meant to suggest glaring light, then the shadows on his face and neck are completely wrong. I'd think using Photoshop to create a uniformly colored sky without unidentifiable flying objects would have been fairly simple, but you didn't correct those flaws.

And even if you had, the image of MLK would have been produced by the AI.

And the image generator you said you used in your other art thread, Wombo, is not one of the very, very few AI image generators using licensed work it has a legal right to use for training its AI.

Look, I know you mean well. And image generators can be fun to play with when they'll take any random idea that occurs to you and turn it into a picture in seconds.

But that's no more creating your own art than telling a human artist to paint something, and giving a few words of instruction, would be. And if you took the picture someone else painted for you and tweaked it, the changes you made would be yours, but the original picture wouldn't be your art, any more than making a few edits in a story or novel makes that the work of the editor rather than the writer.