I'll add my 2 cents. I'm also someone who can't draw. Particularly hands and feet. So I've been playing a lot with AI art generators for the last few months. I've only shared maybe 6 images over on that megathread. Most of what I'm generating is just for me, just me playing around. It also definitely gets into adult realms, because I play more with the NSFW generators. I don't share much because, well, it's more for me. Also, for the most part, that megathread is staying away from the more adult stuff (and maybe that's a byproduct of the fact that people on that thread are using Bing image creator and the like, so you wouldn't be able to generate anything very adult themed. And yeah, a lot of it tends to be rather samey. As Jeff noted earlier, it's an evolving tool, and will probably get better the more it is interacted with.
Can this, and should this take the place of people creating art themselves, whether with brush or pen or pencil or stylus? No. And I don't think that ultimately it will. But I do think there's some value in it for people like me who can't express what we see in our heads through our hands. I can write, and I have. I've posted stories on this forum and published a couple on Kindle. But as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes being able to put some descriptors into a generator and produce something that approximates what I'm seeing in my head is valuable.
So I say let there be a place for it here. And I do agree, keep it to a thread or two. Although I can also see some individual images popping up on the Scenes of Desperation thread, or perhaps Ticklegasms and Edging. Or perhaps move the megathread to it's own category, like the anime thread. See how it evolves.
Can this, and should this take the place of people creating art themselves, whether with brush or pen or pencil or stylus? No. And I don't think that ultimately it will. But I do think there's some value in it for people like me who can't express what we see in our heads through our hands. I can write, and I have. I've posted stories on this forum and published a couple on Kindle. But as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes being able to put some descriptors into a generator and produce something that approximates what I'm seeing in my head is valuable.
So I say let there be a place for it here. And I do agree, keep it to a thread or two. Although I can also see some individual images popping up on the Scenes of Desperation thread, or perhaps Ticklegasms and Edging. Or perhaps move the megathread to it's own category, like the anime thread. See how it evolves.
