Soon all artists will be expected to use AI generation as a part of their process. Art will be so devalued that it will be the only way to make enough volume of work to make a living off of it. Resist all you might, but capitalism beat the luddites and it beat the communes and it will beat freelance artists too.
Weird take: the area where it will catch on first is children's book illustrations.
Any hand-wringing about this by consumer advocates or within the publishing industry will be met with the same thought-terminating cliche that anyone who has concerns about the quality of children's media should already be familiar with: "kids can't tell the difference." The devaluation you're talking about will enter an irreversible end-stage once the children raised on AI art are adults.
Oh yeah, there is a lot of very clever work being done in some quarters, but every time my mother-in-law goes to the dollar store she brings my daughter one of these ten-page-long whatchamacallits with no author listed, and they're always full of borderline-uncanny illustrations and imperfect rhyme. Sorry, this is a hot-button issue for me right now.
And one day Capital will die too. One day Sol will die too, burning out and sweeping away good and evil alike. Empires fall, seas change; to imagine that something as fragile as a hallucinatory human construct will be eternal is just plain vanity.
If we do not wish to die, the best we can do is evolve and leave our deceased yesterdays behind us.
So because Singularity(tm) desires, artists in the present should be screwed over or else the great death-cheating escape hatch potential in the speculative future is forfeit? :what-the-hell:
The folks who think they are "the Singularity" are damn fools. Who represents that group, exactly? Yudowsky trying to promote Alcor's cryogenics tech even though it still doesn't work? Fucking... ELON MUSK?
You know me, you know I abandoned my daydreams of seeing gay luxury space communism in my time. The only path to a bright future now is something humble, something respectful and human. The hollow men trying to use AI and neural nets to capture the future... they ain't it. Innovation which does not respect the sanctity of life and the emotional well-being of everyone is a dead end. Love and cherish your limited corporeal being. Capital will try to take it from you, Capital will tell you that it isn't enough or that you're using it wrong, but that doesn't make Capital any less mortal than you are.
Haven’t seen Ai models encroaching on the paper-mache vaginas with rusty nails driven through it market yet.
Nor will they. Fine Arts is unassailable because it isn't actually defined as anything. It's not a job, it's a money laundering scheme you get paid for if you catch the attention of the proper people.
What this will destroy is the part of the art world that actually still cared about drawing and painting as skills.
Soon all artists will be expected to use AI generation as a part of their process. Art will be so devalued that it will be the only way to make enough volume of work to make a living off of it. Resist all you might, but capitalism beat the luddites and it beat the communes and it will beat freelance artists too.
:doomer:
Weird take: the area where it will catch on first is children's book illustrations.
Any hand-wringing about this by consumer advocates or within the publishing industry will be met with the same thought-terminating cliche that anyone who has concerns about the quality of children's media should already be familiar with: "kids can't tell the difference." The devaluation you're talking about will enter an irreversible end-stage once the children raised on AI art are adults.
Nah, children’s illustrations are too stylised. They don’t lend themselves well to AI.
I’d expect AI to be used for more generic stuff first. Stock photos, fantasy/RPG art assets, porn, etc.
There is a lot of super-generic low-effort art happening in the "dollar-store children's books" space right now. The writing isn't much better.
That’s disappointing to hear. The ones I’ve seen recently (albeit at real bookshops) are of decent quality.
Oh yeah, there is a lot of very clever work being done in some quarters, but every time my mother-in-law goes to the dollar store she brings my daughter one of these ten-page-long whatchamacallits with no author listed, and they're always full of borderline-uncanny illustrations and imperfect rhyme. Sorry, this is a hot-button issue for me right now.
PowerPoint presentations. :corporate-art:
And one day Capital will die too. One day Sol will die too, burning out and sweeping away good and evil alike. Empires fall, seas change; to imagine that something as fragile as a hallucinatory human construct will be eternal is just plain vanity.
If we do not wish to die, the best we can do is evolve and leave our deceased yesterdays behind us.
So because Singularity(tm) desires, artists in the present should be screwed over or else the great death-cheating escape hatch potential in the speculative future is forfeit? :what-the-hell:
The folks who think they are "the Singularity" are damn fools. Who represents that group, exactly? Yudowsky trying to promote Alcor's cryogenics tech even though it still doesn't work? Fucking... ELON MUSK?
You know me, you know I abandoned my daydreams of seeing gay luxury space communism in my time. The only path to a bright future now is something humble, something respectful and human. The hollow men trying to use AI and neural nets to capture the future... they ain't it. Innovation which does not respect the sanctity of life and the emotional well-being of everyone is a dead end. Love and cherish your limited corporeal being. Capital will try to take it from you, Capital will tell you that it isn't enough or that you're using it wrong, but that doesn't make Capital any less mortal than you are.
I got whiplash from your reply; I agreed with it 100% yet I thought I disagreed with your previous post. :order-of-lenin:
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If that's all you think artists do, that's sad.
Nor will they. Fine Arts is unassailable because it isn't actually defined as anything. It's not a job, it's a money laundering scheme you get paid for if you catch the attention of the proper people.
What this will destroy is the part of the art world that actually still cared about drawing and painting as skills.