Raw LLM Responses

Picture for a moment two chefs. Because so many are familiar with this property, I will call one Chef Skinner and the other Chef Gustaeu. Due to some unfortunate accident/disease, they have lost the use of their limbs. Because of this, they can no longer use their limbs to cook and must rely on the assistance of their kitchen staff. Chef Skinner sits on a stool and shouts, “MAKE ME SOUP!” The kitchen staff scrambles with the vague instruction and produces a tomato soup before presenting it to Chef Skinner. Chef Skinner, enraged, shouts, “NO! THIS IS WRONG! MAKE A DIFFERENT SOUP!” And so the kitchen staff scrambled again, taking publicly available recipes, trying another random soup, and presenting them to Chef Skinner. Chef Skinner continues to shout at his kitchen staff until he either gives up or they manage to randomly arrive at his artistic vision from his vague instruction. Meanwhile, Chef Gustaeu also sits on a stool in the corner of his kitchen, relying on his kitchen staff. He speaks to his kitchen staff, telling them, “today, we are going to make a French Onion Soup, only we are going to be tweaking the ingredients.” He then proceeds to offer his kitchen staff detailed instructions. The kitchen staff proceeds to follow Chef Gustaeu’s instruction, and as they work, Chef Gustaeu provides further instruction, telling them to add more salt, reduce the thickness of the cheese, etc. When they present a French Onion Soup to them, he provides further instruction and continues working with his kitchen staff until they achieve the French Onion soup that matches his artistic instruction. In a lot of the discussion surrounding AI art, much of the opposition attempts to paint all users of AI art as Chef Skinner in the analogy. They claim that, like Chef Skinner, AI artists do nothing but shout at their computer or pull a slot machine until they get a random result they can settle on. They are, therefore, not artists. Yet even in the Chef Skinner example, he is attempting to direct the cooking. The fact that others must cook the food for him does not take that away. He is still a chef, a cook, and an artist, just not a very good one in this capacity. Chef Gustaeu, by contrast, is a good Chef, cook, and artist. There are certainly AI users who are like Chef Skinner. Little effort is put into mastering the technology and they get corespondent results. But there are also AI users who are like Chef Gustaeu. They put far more work into the guidance of the process, edit, refine the prompts, train the AI, edit more, add on more sketching, edit more, and continue working until the art achieves their vision. Quite a lot of AI users are somewhere in between. The tool remains largely the same, but the technical skill used with the tool and the way the tool is used is what makes the difference.