OP, I agree with you: I have seen amazing stuff be done with diffusion models. That being said, I get the impression that a lot of the stuff posted on the internet isn't very well made (not just limited to AI images, before this it would've been stuff on deviantart or furaffinity), probably because of user inexperience with the technology or lack of care. One of the major differences I've noticed is that barrier to entry and time investment required to make AI stuff of any quality is much lower than a lot of other mediums, causing a large number of (for lack of a better word) "slop" content on a lot of websites.

I guess people get frustrated when a lot of posts they end up finding don't appeal to them. That's not to say that what they like is "good" and what they don't is "garbage", but more that they don't have an easy way of sorting out what they like from what they don't.

The closest analogy I can think of would be if stuff from Gacha Club or Gaia Online was posted everywhere on the internet.

I'm rambling on, but I'm still not sure how I feel on this.

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>one without love for the art
I do wonder, how does someone measure whether the person behind the image has "love for the art"? I guess a simple way would be to check the level of care put into minor details, but that might be confounded by skill level, time investment or artistic intent.

A better question is, does "love for the art" matter? If an artist draws a happy loli or something, do they show a love for art (whatever that may be) or a love for the idea and subject matter (the loli)? Is there a meaningful difference between the two? Does the audience feel differently on this matter than the artist, and does that matter?

What do you think, anons?

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I'm thinking of getting something to run a local instance of Stable Diffusion (or whatever other image generation program is available). Any tips on hardware requirements? I don't know if a GPU is required, or if you can get by with just a CPU and integrated graphics. Also no idea on RAM or storage (though I have heard you need 10-100 GB at least?). Don't want to spend too much, and I don't have a gaming PC currently.