Nursoda posted at 6:13 AM Sat, 21 March 2026 - #4504670

Poser and Daz Studio content has always been content that content creators prepare down to the smallest detail for the end user, aka artist, so that the artist only has to choose the character, the nail polish, and the pose to create a work of art.
Where exactly is the difference to AI?
I see AI as something like a completely new rendering engine that delivers results in seconds that no one else, not even with the most expensive 3D apps, could achieve.
What should count in art, in my opinion, is the final result. Not the artist.
AI kills the artist and the marketplace. So what?

I find this is a surprisingly nihilistic and ill-formed, misinformed, and incorrect viewpoint. First, you are completely discounting that the content creator is an artist, too - That many content creators make their content as art. Maybe you don't? Second, you are discounting the extent to which the customer/end-user/artist may modify and transform the content to get it ready for use. It's not as if content creators are the be-all, end-all. At best, you provide a start point. Third, you are discounting the notion of process in art. It is not just the final result that matters. For an artist, the road to achieving that end result also counts. Fourth, you are discounting the control that an artist wants over the finished product. AI eliminates that control, strips away the role of the actual artist and makes all of us into morons. You type a few words and AI produces something in response that may or may not have anything to do with your intentions. At the end, the work is still not your work. It's just something the AI algorithmically constructed and spit out from all the art and images that were stolen and fed to it. The fact that you, a person known for making particularly creative and amusing figures, can say "so what" if the artist and the marketplace vanish in the face of the theft-based garbage we call generative AI makes me want to vomit. Art is part of our birthright as humans. It does not belong to a soulless, mindless, idiotic image generator.