I'm not a graphic artist. I'm also not a video creator. However, according to people online, I can now be both of these things without taking courses or even actually doing them. I can just type word prompts into a chat box and a computer on the other end with will waste electricity to output something resembling a drawing or a video. Does that make me a graphic artist or video creator now? No, and I wouldn't want to do it this way.
I do draw and I have created album artwork for a few of my podcasts, but it's not what I would call "great art". It is mine, however, and it is original. It took me a lot of time to draw what I wanted to, and I had to look up some reference images to use as a guide. The pyramid on my ISC artwork was difficult at first because I'm not great with perspective. I managed to get it to work, though.
I enjoy writing and am currently working on a fiction project. I could probably enter a summary of what I want it to be into that chat box and the computer on the other end will burn down a couple acres of rainforest, pump several tons of CO2 into the air and output something resembling a novel, but it will be riddled with inconsistencies, plot holes (if it even writes a plot), and will be flat and lifeless, as if a computer spewed it out. Because it did.
Writing contains much more than the basic story. It contains the authors' lived experiences, their memories, their likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, and their attitude. Stories that I write may not name a specific place, but the descriptions are definitely places that I've been and I can see in my head. I hope that if I ever release these stories to the public, people will be able to see them too. I am also writing nonfiction in the form a blog dedicated to my reading of the Bible and it too contains parts of me in the writing.
If you think that you can't write, try it for yourself. Think of the story that you want to tell and start writing it down. If you hate what you've written, figure out what you hate about it and learn from it. Do it again and keep doing it. Use writing prompts. Just look around you an describe what you see. Muster up your courage and give it to someone to read and be ready to accept criticism. A good friend will be gentle and honest.
If you're not into writing or drawing, then enjoy other people's works and tell them so. Don't think that you have to use AI to "create" for yourself because you're not actually creating anything; you're outsourcing your ideas to a computer that has no appreciation for the craft and that's the way it comes out. AI "art" looks and feels like it was done by a machine that was completing a task and person that put care and time and work into the product. If you have a drawing idea that you would like to see created, ask me to do it, and I will draw it for free. I could use the practice (I will, however, treat the final drawing so that is poisons any AI models that decided to train on it).
It's OK not to be good at something. The people that are good at things aren't gatekeeping, they're just good at things. I get more criticism about my work from people who don't actually do the thing that they're criticizing. Most people who actually write and draw will give constructive criticism that is meant to help. If somebody posts and obvious AI output "drawing" or "written work" and asks for thoughts from the artists or writers, they will be honest and they will recognize that it is AI.
