Comment There's more to it than simple prompts (Score 1) 164
> Photographs are composed by the photographer. They make choices about framing, lighting, focus, where and when to shoot. This requires talent, expertise, and effort. You can't say the same for telling a computer to make a picture.
What you said reads like someone told a photographer "all you have to do is push a button on the camera, that's not creative!" Now imagine explaining why that's wrong to someone who doesn't even know what the f-stop is.
Because there actually is a lot of skill that goes into choosing prompts, selecting results, etc. It's maybe more apparent when techniques are used like in-painting, where you create the actual composition by rearranging elements (e.g. put the fence here, a tree there, etc.) and have the AI fill in the blanks in a consistent style, but what the experts are doing with it has evolved far, far beyond the simple prompts that most people have seen.
A ton of work goes into it when you want works in a consistent style, you want to avoid crazy artifacts, and you want to keep the same characters/elements beyond the generation of a single picture.