Spent 3 hours trying to get an AI art generator to make a simple cartoon dog

I needed a goofy cartoon dog for a buddy's birthday card, nothing fancy. Three hours later I had 50 creepy mutants with five legs instead of one decent pooch. Does anyone else spend way more time wrestling with AI tools than the actual task is worth?

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stone.lisa1mo ago

Agree, spent longer fixing its six legged cat than drawing one from scratch.

the_anthony1mo ago

Ended up spending two whole hours tweaking the AI's attempt at a hand with seven fingers before I just gave up and drew it myself in ten minutes. The worst part was that the original drawing looked like a confused alien octopus, and no matter how many times I regenerated it just kept getting more terrifying. Pretty sure I lost a few brain cells staring at that abomination trying to fix the proportions lol.

betty_kelly91mo ago

Oh man, that's rough. My record is two hours of wrestling with an AI for a simple sunset background before I gave up and used a filter from my phone's photo app in 30 seconds. Solidarity on those lost brain cells, seriously.

nancyj111mo ago

Oh wow, that really hits home for me. I used to think AI tools were basically magic and could do anything, but @betty_kelly9 your story about the sunset background just opened my eyes. I honestly changed my mind after reading that because it reminded me of all the times I fought with those generators for simple stuff. The whole "two hours for a sunset" thing is EXACTLY what happens to me with text generation too. It's like the AI just doesn't get what "simple" means half the time. Now I just laugh at myself for ever thinking these things would save me time on basic tasks.