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they’re both wrong, and they’re both right
an AI can create concept art for a writer to better visualise their world to generate ideas in a pinch, but it shouldn’t ever be what you use to show anyone else: you still need real concept art
an AI can also create writing for their art so that they can flesh out a back story to make their visual art more detailed, but it’s not going to write anything that you’d want anyone to read as a book or act in for a movie
both things can be used for the described purpose, and both things are inadequate for quality output
we’ve had this juxtaposition for a while: “redneck X”… they’re scrapped together barely functional versions of the thing you’re trying to do, on the cheap, with home-made tools. you wouldn’t sell it, but it’s kinda fine for this 1 situation with many many asterisks
professionals often don’t like when someone can hack together something functional because they know the many many places where that thing falls down when you talk about long-term, and the general case… but sometimes a hack job solves a specific problem in a specific situation for a moment for cheap and that’s all you need
(just don’t try it with electricity or your health: the consequences of not understanding this complexity is death… of course ;p)
so... if it's only for creating visuals for yourself and not for showing anyone else... I already have a perfectly fine imagination that I've been using for that purpose for as long as I can remember. Maybe it's useful for these people who I've been told have no imagination, but to me, it seems awfully redundant.
there are different kinds of imagination, and there are different kinds of being creative… just because someone isn’t visual doesn’t mean they aren’t creative: especially when you’re talking about writers
So artists who photoshop images they find on the internet into a collage to visualize their idea have no imagination? Artists do this all the time especially if they need to communicate their idea to others and get little time to conceptualize their ideas on paper.