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Developer questions spending money on AI prompts over GIMP
Original: But why? Why waste money (tokens) and time (prompting and prompting and prompting) if, I believe, GIMP can do a good job
A developer is publicly questioning why anyone would spend money on AI tokens and hours writing prompts when free image editing software like GIMP can already do a solid job. He acknowledges that AI-focused contributors have kept their work out of the GIMP community and built their own separate project instead, but says he still does not understand the end goal, wondering aloud whether the point is fame.
Why now: Ongoing debate in developer communities about whether generative AI tools are worth the cost and effort compared with established free software.
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- But why? Why waste money (tokens) and time (prompting and prompting and prompting) if, I believe, GIMP can do a good job already. I mean, it’s good that they didn’t pollute the GIMP community with gen-ai pull requests and found their own sandbox. But what is the end goal? Fame?… · mikolasan@cupoftea.social · 3
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