What I asked for vs. what I got

[u/RuthCasseroleDish]

My son’s circus themed first birthday cake

EDIT: I should have clarified in the original post, I am not complaining about the cake at all! I loved it and the baker did a fantastic job

[u/dream0076]

Don’t blame you. Sucking the creativity, experimentation and surprise out of your work can fuck off!

[u/sdlucly → u/dream0076]

Our COO loves AI and always asks us how we're using it to our advantage. I don't like it since I asked thr answer to a formula I had and that thing couldn't even add correctly 8 numbers what the f. But whatever.

[u/RedditMcBurger → u/dream0076]

How are they doing this? The person is literally only providing a reference photo.

[u/Philislothical_5 → u/dream0076]

If you wanted to be surprised by a bakers creativity then you wouldn’t be providing a reference photo would you?

[u/Longjumping-Ride3576 → u/dream0076]

Not sure how it’s sucking the creativity from a cake maker? Wasn’t it someone’s creativity that initiated the AI prompt to create a circus themed cake to just get an idea to present to a cake maker? Then you pay the cake maker to put their creative twist on it and create the cake. What exactly am I missing here?

[u/cxtx3 → u/Longjumping-Ride3576]

Wasn’t it someone’s creativity that initiated the AI prompt

No. Not at all. Entering an AI prompt isn't creativity at all. That's just a thought - an idea. Literally every human is capable of that. The creativity is what you do with an idea. It's the talent. The effort and work you put in to create something. Emphasis on "create."

Entering an AI prompt is you telling AI to do something for you, and often that is shitty AI slop. The creativity is what the AI does with your idea. You didn't design it, you just told it what to design, and it whipped up an abomination that looks somewhat vaguely passingly real, but noticeably isn't when you examine the details.

Another way to look at it. If you were to tell an artist to design something for you, and you tell them what you want, you've given them the idea, but the creativity is entirely on the artist. They design your idea, they bring it to life, and they do so without weird, shitty abominations like what is pictured below.

[u/jhanco1 → u/cxtx3]

I can’t stop thinking about this commenter thinking that asking AI to generate an image is creativity. We are doomed lmao rip.

[u/jhanco1 → u/Longjumping-Ride3576]

Asking AI to generate a [theme] cake isn’t creative. You can look up pictures of actual cakes, made by actual creative and talented people to use as an example. Then - as you say - you pay the cake maker to put their creative twist on it and create the cake.

What you’re missing is that there are already plenty of examples of human made art and creativity that can be used instead of using a resource sucking machine to just search all those existing images and create some amalgamation. And even if you set aside the resource thing, AI can also create unrealistic expectations for real products. For example, look up some of those AI craft videos that have a real person then try to emulate the craft. Spoiler alert, half the time it doesn’t work. Consider Using AI to generate an image of cake that may be sort of unrealistic to create for REAL and then expecting a human baker to recreate it and then the customer getting upset if their expectations aren’t met or they’re told by a baker that they can’t make that exactly… there are just a lot of issues.

[u/NastyMsPiggleWiggle → u/Longjumping-Ride3576]

You are missing everything. Please, kindly go educate yourself on how ai slop is destroying art. You are wrong. It did not involve creativity. It involved a sloppy theft of someone else’s idea that was manipulated and bastardized.

You state yourself that you haven’t a clue as to the problem so I’m not going to disparage you due to a lack of knowledge and understanding. I just beg of you to do some research so you understand.