I think "AI assisted" digital art needs its own category in showcases

I keep seeing people lumping fully hand drawn digital pieces with stuff that was basically generated by a prompt and then touched up. At the local gallery last month, I watched a guy spend 4 hours on a single piece in Procreate, and right next to him was someone who typed "cyberpunk cat" into Midjourney and called it a day. They were both labeled "digital art" on the tags. It's not the same skill set at all. Why does everyone act like it is? Anyone else feel like we need different sections for this stuff?

2 comments

2 Comments

henrygrant13d ago

Does it bother you that they're grouped together, or is it more about the way people talk about the process? For me, when I was in a similar spot at a craft fair, I had to start asking the artists directly how they made their work before I judged the skills involved. It was a small change, but it made me realize the context really matters, and maybe a separate label would help the audience understand those different levels of effort.

abbyc3313d ago

Asking the artists directly at a craft fair helped me see the difference between someone welding custom pieces and someone assembling pre-cut parts. Once I started talking about technique instead of just the finished product, the whole conversation changed for me. Getting that firsthand context made me realize a separate label would save everyone from making wrong assumptions right off the bat.