{"id":189124,"date":"2026-03-05T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=189124"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:51:46","slug":"todays-quote-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s quote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creator.nightcafe.studio\/u\/Mr_Sherman\" target=\"_blank\">Mr_Sherman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using AI to generate images does not make one an Artist &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>AI image generation is clever, but it is not creation. I have spent years mastering the demanding craft of watercolor and claim the right to call myself a true Artist. The word artist implies depth of creativity, skill, and craftsmanship \u2014 qualities not fully exercised by typing prompts into a machine. Many participants here, with no training, practice, or esthetic discipline, effortlessly generate striking images. Platforms like NightCafe boldly call them \u2018AI Artists,\u2019 but they are, at best, Conjurers with DigitalMagic wands. Prompt-writing does take some imagination and skill, but it cannot compare to the work of those who paint, work with wood, stone, cloth or clay, with human hands. Comments like \u2018Brilliant!\u2019 or \u2018Amazing Creativity!\u2019 ring hollow when the skill belongs to the tool, not the operator. AI image generation is fundamentally the curation of output from a machine trained on the scanned labor of millions of artists.<\/p>\n<p>All that said\u2026 using NightCafe is damned good fun \u2014 and I\u2019ve been happily addicted for four years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr_Sherman: Using AI to generate images does not make one an Artist &#8230;. AI image generation is clever, but it is not creation. I have spent years mastering the demanding craft of watercolor and claim the right to call myself a true Artist. The word artist implies depth of creativity, skill, and craftsmanship \u2014 qualities &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-quote-42\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s quote&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,711,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-fake-art","category-sf-and-beyond"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-Nco","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189125,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189124\/revisions\/189125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}