That is not how the artists I have talked to see it. Many are very angry about it. When I asked one about the generated cover, she came right back with, why didn’t the author reach out to work with them?
And now, DeviantArt is collapsing, as artists flee, and content is being dominated by automated generative AI spamming out content.
Now, I understand the frustration of someone able to see something in their head and is unable to put it into drawing. Storywriting is already an all-consuming discipline … but so is anything creative.
Honestly I don't get why people use GenAI covers. You can get a surprisingly decent if basic cover for as little as $50 (lots of artists in Latam and SEA willing to work for not very much), and if you're willing to drop a couple hundred on it, great artists will make line up to work with you.
Considering the time and effort that goes into writing a book, if you value your own time, and work, this should be a no-brainer.
It's low-effort, and, once enough time has passed, it'll be this decade's equivalent of those trivial-to-add "blink" or "marquee" tags from the geocities times.
Fast-forward 5 years, and our attitude might be:
Hmmm, so you added an AI-generated image to your AI-generated slop "post", everybody knows "those" pages. Not gonna waste my time here.
And now, DeviantArt is collapsing, as artists flee, and content is being dominated by automated generative AI spamming out content.
Now, I understand the frustration of someone able to see something in their head and is unable to put it into drawing. Storywriting is already an all-consuming discipline … but so is anything creative.