I weighed ~270, and went on a 900-calorie/day liquid diet (doctor-monitored). In the first two weeks, I lost ~20lbs (water weight, as I understand it).
Over the next ~3 months I lost 1 pound. Total. With lots of activity and exercise. And without cheating even once.
It can be a real thing.
After all, the client is coming to you for art, not a lecture. Don't want to end up making them feel punished for doing the very thing you want to advocate (paying human artists).
I suspect, as with all things, there's a balance to be had.
Plus, you want the human artist to be the *premium* experience, which is definitely not what the client gets if you tell them to fuck off.
Though I might argue that "just accept whatever reference the client offers" is valid, too. If it's AI, it probably cost an AI company money, so, win?
The difference being you can run the AI hundreds of times with varying tweaks until you actually get what you want, but it's unlikely an artist would be willing to give you hundreds of sketches to help you get what you want.
Let clients communicate how they're most comfortable. There's no downside.
Aha! That's what I get for looking at it on my phone, where it just liked like super bad color spill from a green screen! Apparently I need a bigger phone.
How the hell is this a decision for superhive to make, and not the developers? That's... bold.
Especially bold given that addons are covered by the GPL and thus it's perfectly legit for people to just... share updated versions rather than keep paying yearly.
