AI generated paintings

Hello Simmers!

We understand and respect your concerns about AI illustrations on paintings. And to be honest, also we wish AI wasn't all over things the way it is. Sorry... This post is going to be big, since we're opening our hearts with you. Happens that we are not illustrators ourselves, we don't even own any devices to handpaint stuff. For over 22 years in sims community, our paintings were all based on images found on internet. But for some years now it's not possible anymore due to copyright issues. Nor TSR nor Curseforge accepts due to this issue. So, we took our chances on free stock photo services... but guess what? Shutterstock, freepik, PNGtree, can stock, iStock, Adobe Stock... almost all of them have bad free database, images nothing really related to our needs... and guess what part 2??? ... Many of them are now AI generated :( So, after knocking our faces on free services offering AI generated with waterkmarks even for free stuff, we decide to generate images ourselves. This way at least, we would be able to write on the prompt exactly what we were looking for..exactly our thoughts about how we wanted that image to be. We're sorry if this upsets you... Yes, many people are against AI generated art. It's a huge discussion and certainly there's no winner side. Nor will ever be. :( But after facing copyright issues, lack of proper drawing devices, lack of hand drawing skills & lack of time to dedicate ourselves to it, plus the fact that most of the really "free" stock photos around are nothing but other's people AI generated stuff, we thought that the least worse option was to hand write our prompts ourselves, accordingly with we have on our minds. It's far from ideal, we know, but it's what we have for now. While building up the rooms we missed paintings in it, and when we place them at our testing game, we thought despite being originated by a prompt written by us, they are still cute. So, if this is not for you, we apologize and we ask you to just skip the paintings. Not everything is perfect. Wish we could have time to learn how to hand drawn ourselves, wish we could have the devices to properly do it, and ultimately wish the free stock photos sites wasn't charging a fortune for us to buy in membership to get AI generated stuff like they do.