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Exactly. At first glance it can spit out some really impressive stuff, but turning that content into a coherent piece of artwork still takes imagination and skill.
I can’t draw very well, but I’ve gotten good at compositing and image manipulation over the years. SD is amazing, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t spend hours and hours piecing together an image to be the way I wanted it.
I definitely got so wrapped up in searching for images for my game that I didn’t think until afterwards about the fact that I was searching for “children prisoner sweatshop.”