furry_irl

Go burn some eggs to a char, eat that, and say it's better than a microwave frozen dinner.

Not everyone is excellent at everything. That's why there's specializations.

Some people like to draw, but many just like to see, much like how everyone eats but not necessarily everyone likes to cook. Not everyone likes making art.

I love cooking, and constantly make complex plates.

My wife? It's extremely stressful for her, and if there was a machine that could just make decent dishes for her when I can't cook, I'd rather her use that (and I bet she would too).

The other thing you're confusing is hobby vs need/want.

If I need/want a basic generic wallpaper for some reason, I'm not going to be able to make it, nor do I want to learn to make it, or have time to make it - I already have other things to do / that I like to do instead, like coding or cooking or just plain old work. My wife is actually a talented artist, but I wouldn't force her to make generic thing she has no interest in making either. For these cases, I spin up the local open source diffusion model (because I'm definitely not paying a company for it, let alone an AI one) and make it in seconds because it's not something I need to be perfect or with soul etc. Just like we don't all need to eat 5 star Michelin meals every day (or can).

Even she uses it to look at different styles or get ideas, or even to make something quickly, because it's better for her than to spend hours making it. And since she actually studied art, she can actually use it better than I, because she knows all the technical art jargon for using in the prompt.

I get that you love art, but just to put you in perspective, you're acting no different than a hardcore Christian trying to convert an atheist. Sometimes people are okay with a frozen microwave dinner.