Like all automation, it would be cool if it didn't mean workers were staring down the barrel of capitol's gun. I love the cool art machine learning models can generate. Would be even cooler if we lived in a world where this didn't threaten anybody and couldn't be used as a cudjol.

We can make a world where this is the case. Suck my guts (girl nuts) for more objectively correct takes you slop hogs.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Reposting my objectively correct and Marxism pilled comment from an earlier thread.

    Digital art did not replace traditional art, and AI generation will not replace artists. AI generation is just a tool, like GIMP or a camera or a synthetic brush, and mastering the use of that tool is every bit as much of a skill as mastering the use of the tools that came before. I suspect that in the future mainstream art will be AI-assisted but artists will still be necessary to “finish” concepts, thus speeding up their output but not replacing them.

    As with other industries, a massive increase in productivity will not produce an increase in wages - it will instead force artists to adopt AI assistance in order to keep up. Commissioning mid art will become dirt cheap, and artists who expect to make a living doing it will have to either master AI generation and increase their volume or specifically target the high end market like artisans of every other industry do. Also as with those other industries, the number of artisans will drop and the number of people doing that kind of work in an assembly line for a wage will increase.

    If one doesn't already exist, soon there will be an app work grift paying artists pennies to generate cheap art to order.

    • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I suspect that in the future mainstream art will be AI-assisted but artists will still be necessary to “finish” concepts, thus speeding up their output but not replacing them.

      Yes. Specifically it'll help company illustrators to make their job way less annoying when you hit a creative block.

      I'm already using it to bounce ideas off of while copywriting when I hit a wall writing the same SEO bullshit again and again.

      The work it comes out with sucks shit, but it gives you the basic structure and speeds up the process and makes it all less teeth pullingish

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I'm thinking a tier higher than that lmao, something like that ghost writing app.