u/Imaginary-Concert392

For context, a year from now I’m planning to apply to police/sheriff depts wherever my fiancee ends up for medical residency. I’d apply now but I’d hate to have to up and leave so soon after making it through academy (and I know the process can take much longer than that). We plan to stay in California, so my curiosity is mostly around the departments here.

I currently run and lift weights, but I’m one of those top-heavy guys that has trouble doing proper full sit-ups. I can definitely do other core workouts just fine (flutter kicks, leg lifts, just not sit-ups).

I was wondering about the state of academy training these days and what the standards are for that in particular. I can run and do pushups just fine, just worried about the sit-up thing.

My previous job involved a lot of investigating/report writing (was in UX research), and I’m bilingual. I was hoping that would help with my application process.

Also, truly what is the state of hiring like? I hear that departments are understaffed and hurting for recruits, but I’m also hearing about how many people get turned away.

Attempting to work with artists on Reddit has pushed me towards AI even further

Going on a late night rant here after trying so many times to give human artists a chance.

Prior to the advent of AI art, I had tried to commission quite a few works of art from the artists on subs like commissions or hungryartists.

While I did end up finding a couple decent good artists to work with, most of the time I was commissioning artists whose final works looked NOTHING like the works they posted in their portfolios. They clearly wanted to just rush through the commissions and not put it any effort. I can’t count the number of times the artists would try to convince me that draft 5 or 6 was as good as it’d get - i.e (“bro this is SO good I can’t believe how good this is” while looking like absolute dogshit).

And it wasn’t due to lack of proper instruction. I made it a point to put in clear instructions upfront, and so many artists would just miss out on all of it and only start looking closely at it with round 2.

This of course hurts genuine artists who try to put forth their best work and who get lost in the weeds when hundreds of artists respond to every hiring post.

But as the customer, I can either deal with weeks of back and forth with humans (sometimes there’d be days between messages) or I can have AI do the work in a few minutes without complaint or much extra adjustment. And it turns out well since I have successful art images to train the AI on.

So many of the artists on those subreddits are hurting the real artists, but at the end of the day, I can’t waste more time dealing with idiotic stubborn artists and pay +$80 for shit when $20 a month gets me 100s of art pieces a week.