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it's funny too, because I don't think I believe that the amount of effort that went in to a thing matters for how good the thing is. The origin of the hodl meme is an incredible piece of internet writing. Maybe it took a lot of effort, maybe gamekyuubi just dashed it off quick like. Either way it's good.
But you are right on that there is some quality that we used to be able to rely on: that highly polished works of art at the very least took significant effort from their creator, and so it was worth engaging seriously. And this is not true anymore.
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I feal as though this is the reason why image slop annoys me. It used to be the case that one could briefly look at an image and see if any great effort was put into it based on the quality of the drawing/painting. Now everything looks like it was made by a pro, but when you look deeper, nothing is there. Even though the models can generate something as flashy as a digital artist like WLOP, the emotional reaction to the image just isn't there. With that said I have seen generated images that had something going on emotionaly, but they always needed further help.