Oh I’m so happy you received my letter!! It was such a great idea, I really love “normal” letters, they’re magical, I’m so glad you do too 🥰 and thanks for sending me something in return! *checks her mailbox every hour*🤣
Creepy is definitely the word for AI art - I can usually spot it a mile away. Soulless might also be the word? I am a January birthday over here too by the way!
The portraits are so cute! 100% agree there is just this slimy weird feeling to the AI art. I don’t have a lot of confidence in my art skills but I’d rather have fun doing subpar art for my stuff than using creepy AI art. I always think about the finite resources absolutely gobbled up to make that junk run too. What a waste. If it was doing something important or truly useful that would be one thing but putting together bland writing and eerie art is not worth the cost (I know some of it has use as prediction models and it’s not all creepy art). Anyway, so cute 🧡
Without human connection there's nothing left...if we think well all the important moments of any life require human connection! Glad you liked my snail mail, thank you for sharing once more 🤗🐌 Your portraits are wonderful Robyn 😍 and your new logo is great, love the detail of your name upside down, so unique! Will try my best to be on the 20th, need to inform family that I won't join them for lunch 🤭 P.S.- btw when is your birthday?
I totally agree with how creepy AI slop is. I refuse to call it ‘art’. There’s something that in it that makes me feel really uncomfortable when I look at it. I used to get that sensation when I looked at photoshopped faces and bodies, and later it happened when I looked at those weirdly uniform faces produced by plastic surgery. Then I got used to both. I sincerely hope to never get used to The Slop. It’s awful!
oh dear, I know! And they're only going to keep "improving." The sensation with photoshopped photos has returned for me since the AI stuff came out, because now they make me wonder if they're just very good AI stuff...
Oh gosh, in every Children's Writers group I'm in there is always a bunch of people who want to self-publish with AI artwork. And it always shocks me. Do you not know what the purpose of the illustration is? Do you not have any respect for the children you're writing for? It is so sad. I didn't know anyone is actually buying this obvious junk, but given your daughter received one, I guess people ARE buying it and it makes me sad. I can spot AI illustrated book in no time. While occasionally you can sneak one simple pic past me, there is no way you can produce a whole book with consistent characters and good story telling. And the "writers" who think it works for children books just don't understand what children books are, and how words and pictures have to work together in it. And frankly, these writers have no business writing children books, because clearly they have done zero research and they just think it's an easy business venture where you can push on the client (the child) any ol crap. SAD!
Oh I’m so happy you received my letter!! It was such a great idea, I really love “normal” letters, they’re magical, I’m so glad you do too 🥰 and thanks for sending me something in return! *checks her mailbox every hour*🤣
They are! I don't understand quite why it's so special, but it is! 😆 I hope it gets there safely!
Oh this new logo is lovely! Can't wait to be on 20th 🖍️
Thank you! 😍 Looking forward to seeing you there! 🥳
Creepy is definitely the word for AI art - I can usually spot it a mile away. Soulless might also be the word? I am a January birthday over here too by the way!
Yes! Definitely soulless! So unnerving.
Hooray! Happy birthday-month to you too. 🥳
The portraits are so cute! 100% agree there is just this slimy weird feeling to the AI art. I don’t have a lot of confidence in my art skills but I’d rather have fun doing subpar art for my stuff than using creepy AI art. I always think about the finite resources absolutely gobbled up to make that junk run too. What a waste. If it was doing something important or truly useful that would be one thing but putting together bland writing and eerie art is not worth the cost (I know some of it has use as prediction models and it’s not all creepy art). Anyway, so cute 🧡
Without human connection there's nothing left...if we think well all the important moments of any life require human connection! Glad you liked my snail mail, thank you for sharing once more 🤗🐌 Your portraits are wonderful Robyn 😍 and your new logo is great, love the detail of your name upside down, so unique! Will try my best to be on the 20th, need to inform family that I won't join them for lunch 🤭 P.S.- btw when is your birthday?
Aw, maybe you can have an early or late lunch together? I don't want you to miss out on that human connection! 😅
Thank you for your words of encouragement. 😍 I've got about 12 versions of that logo now, all with slight variations.
My birthday is the 30th. 🥳
Happy month Birthday, Robyn! I love all your portraits (the animals are so cute) and bookmarks! Your illustrations fill my heart with warmness! <3
I'm so glad to hear that! 😍
I totally agree with how creepy AI slop is. I refuse to call it ‘art’. There’s something that in it that makes me feel really uncomfortable when I look at it. I used to get that sensation when I looked at photoshopped faces and bodies, and later it happened when I looked at those weirdly uniform faces produced by plastic surgery. Then I got used to both. I sincerely hope to never get used to The Slop. It’s awful!
oh dear, I know! And they're only going to keep "improving." The sensation with photoshopped photos has returned for me since the AI stuff came out, because now they make me wonder if they're just very good AI stuff...
Oh, and happy birthday month!
Thank you! Only two more sleeps! 🥳 Just noticed I share a birthday with Rebecca Green, so that makes me feel connected to greatness somehow... 😅
Oh, I love her work too!
Oh gosh, in every Children's Writers group I'm in there is always a bunch of people who want to self-publish with AI artwork. And it always shocks me. Do you not know what the purpose of the illustration is? Do you not have any respect for the children you're writing for? It is so sad. I didn't know anyone is actually buying this obvious junk, but given your daughter received one, I guess people ARE buying it and it makes me sad. I can spot AI illustrated book in no time. While occasionally you can sneak one simple pic past me, there is no way you can produce a whole book with consistent characters and good story telling. And the "writers" who think it works for children books just don't understand what children books are, and how words and pictures have to work together in it. And frankly, these writers have no business writing children books, because clearly they have done zero research and they just think it's an easy business venture where you can push on the client (the child) any ol crap. SAD!