genesis2 wrote:
On a daily basis, there are 3 or 4 choppers at best, followed by the same 3 or 4 voters, and since Bob who is a real nice guy and votes for everyone but his votes cancel out so this leaves the contests in the hands of basically two non participating voters. This site has become a Pathetic place to compete, lost all of it's former glory. It's not a battle of Photoshop, but a battle of AI. And,Yes I do use it at times, but creativity is in the prompt's words not in the mind and hands of the chopper.
Yeah, seems like a disaster... Just came to check on my ol family here, and did a quick non-advantage upload in the same time. I agree with you and i am quite astonished frankly to find to the site still alive, even barely.
I think there is a Facebook page, PSC needs to be pushed on social medias
I could always try to promote it via my humble Youtube channel, even tho content is unrelated (music production). It is sad but maybe there is a way to "attract" newcomers....stating something like "Let's fight generative AI together and do it ourself #photoshopcontest
Cheers
ps: i saw u guys talk about ai, and sometimes use it maybe for source i mean why not, its no different than using actual photo even tho it might have some extra "artsy" features that provide some lightening etc (not ok). I just wanted to say i have nothing against using Ai this way, i did not mean that, but i did not checked the uplaods here, what s have been done, and i guesssome of it might be verrry AI processed. i don t know why i thought this site was clear of it haha. For sure . So it is difficult to attract new people then, on the sole purpose of photoshopping, unless we say "improve you AI art at PSC", maybe the site could become a post treatment for ai art in this case (smh). I dunno what else to add. tehre must be a way to revive this site, but it will be hard to do without establishing certain rules and maybe implement an .. AI detector that detects that tehre is too much AI in an upload (and i don t think such thing exists. I know there is something in music industry that can detect AI processing though (probably because AI music is still a bit "pixellized" or something). No, to be fair, i just think we need a clear message and I have no clue what it should be though. It s messed up. And i think i read Ledirlo said that its not just AI the problem, it s the evry new photshop tools that are too "modern" , not sure i got it. Personnally i still use Photshop CS2 haha. I cant use anything else, not that i didnt try , i hate other programs. But icannot go with their rental plan so, im stuck with a very old PS version. And i don t complain.
