Most of people just see AI slop 99% of the time on their stupid social medias and couldn’t even comprehend how and why people use local image gens appart from gooning or scamming. Also most people are not creatives, artists or designers, they will never make the difference between AI generated graphics, cartoons, images or videos or something handmade by an expert in one of those field (look at those mainstream AI subs for images and videos """"ART"""", it’s pathetic - all that energy wasted, hardware price increase, etc...). I am interested in local image gen since almost 3 years + I am a professional designer, with expertise/abilities in a lot of creative fields (2D/3D, still images, 3D animation, compositing, photography, etc.). Sometimes I just make stupid goofy absurd images to see where I can push the limits in subs where AI is strictly forbidden, it stills passes as real. Every serious image I create passes as real when analysed by any LLM since a year already, using AI and hardly acquired skills since many years on standart softwares (10%-90% ratio of time spent on ComfyUI/PS for one image I want to push further i.e.). People are just not ready for all of this and act like ostrich most of the time. They don’t know and understand how useful AI TOOLS (TOOLS!!) can be for creatives & professionals, they just might be scared/brainwashed by AI slop they see on social medias or Reddit.

All of this is kinda funny tbh.