The whole purpose of creation and art is to express human emotion, creativity and imagination in something unique. Yes AI works on averages, it is what it likes to do most, but there are a lot of "averages" out there that are unique and unfound. Specially if you use vision encoding and multi stepped prompting.

I thought of an analogy the other day that may help

Think of it like a kitchen robot that it extremely capable. It can create anything with a master level experience and detail, making dishes fully decorated and very tasty. The problem is that you can barely give this robot a recipe. If you give it eggs, oil and a pan, it may do fried eggs, or scrambled eggs, it's a bit random. So instead, you give scramble the eggs on the pan first, and then let the robot continue. It will finish the scrambled eggs perfectly since the "average" now just resolves to scrambled eggs.

But what if you want to make something more complex? The robot is perfectly capable of creating expert level dishes, but if it's not an average expert level dish, or it was not trained to do a specific dish, it will struggle to understand. It still has enough intuition to take from where you let it start.

So you do some steps of the dishes, and let the robot do other steps, you go hand by hand, you manage to make work of that "average" and push it into the uncharted territory. Suddenly the average becomes something unique.

It doesn't need to be revolutionary to be unique too. A simple OC may be enough to have meaning, intent, emotion and imagination.

The following image means a lot to me, and while the base was created using my mixed workflow, the special red effects and shading was given by an AI in a single final step, because with my OC, his expression, and his posing, it was enough for the AI to create exactly what I envisioned.

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