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Why would you pay for them when you can just generate them yourself for cheaper?
Do you mean to tell me that Prompt Engineer isn't a real job??
I mean it is a real job, and it takes a unique skill set if your actually building the workflow, tuning the model and learning the tooling.
But it's not the same job as artist.
Its like comparing a stone sculpture to a welder. Both can make art but it's two VERY different processes and results.
The problem is the stupid ass prompt engineers are claiming to be artists and have no actual art skills. And 99% of them don't even understand how the fuck their own tooling works, understand how to actual tune the model or even what it's training set really is.
They just slap words into the slop generator and call it a day
It's the equivalent of yeeting a paint can at a wall and calling it art.
It's fucking stupid
It's like comparing a stone sculptor to a welder where the welding tools started as magnifying glasses in the direct sun a year ago worked up through acetylene torches and now you've got 400A precision TIG arc welders to screw up with...