Yes, this is another AI generated image!
As I said at the beginning, I can’t tell you whether AI is good or bad in
itself. What it is is easy and fast to use, which means that hundreds of images can be created very quickly indeed. This means that an AI user can open a new shop on Etsy (for example) and list a lot of patterns almost immediately. If they clearly state that their patterns were generated using AI, or even if they don’t but you’ve worked it out for yourself and still want to purchase the design, then that’s fine, it’s your decision, but I do recommend that you bear a few things
in mind:
● The completed design doesn’t exist in the real world, so you’re unlikely to receive a detailed stitching guide or floss specifications. Indeed, some of the stitches you’re looking at may not even be possible to achieve (think of those curved lines in the teddy bear image). Sometimes you
will be able to copy the image, but equally you may end up feeling very disappointed with your results.
● The person selling the pattern hasn’t actually stitched the sample image, so there won’t be any technical help available to you.
● AI designs are usually sold very cheaply (let’s face it there’s almost zero effort involved in creating them). They’re flooding the market and squeezing out genuine human designers whose patterns may never get seen as AI designs take up so much space in the search listings. It takes a lot of hard work (and often years of experience) to create a genuine “real-world” pattern that shares
all the designer’s expertise and technical knowledge with the customer.
● AI raises the stitcher’s (particularly the novice stitcher’s) expectations to unrealistic levels as it is just about impossible to achieve the perfect results shown.
I do hope that this has given you a bit of an insight into AI embroidery images, and some helpful tips when you’re thinking about purchasing a new pattern including whether you want to take a chance on an AI design or not.
