I know the existential crisis that generative AI brough is not something new, but I was hit with the realization especially bad when I tried to generate some concept arts for a few characters I have in mind, I didn't expect anything phenomenal but I ended up liking the generated art a little too much.

I've always wanted to try my hand to create conceptual arts for my characters, it was something long overdue. I have always been trying to work on a conceptual level, of how the characters might look like in my head, so I was able to work out AI prompt that gave me satisfactory results that fit what I have in mind very well.

The feeling of how the concepts are stuck in my head for so long, and all of it can just be generated with a single click instead of me struggling to recreate it by hand shook me a little. I was happy to see the concepts come together nicely, but feel extremely conflicted that it was only a click away all this time.

I would say I am not really affected much by generative AI as an hobbyist, I can't deny of being glad the skill and workload required to create is drastically reduced, but I understand this is devastating for artists. I can understand why some people might get irrationally angry with AI or want to boycott AI, and I honestly don't know what to say to the anger, but I think non of us can deny that generative AI is getting more and more powerful day by day, it is just a piece of cold, hard tech after all, there is no doubt some value to be found in any technology.

I just hope in the future, artists that can create their own niche in the 'age of AI' or maybe even embrace the use of generative AI to create some phenomenal things.