(OP here) I agree. I am an artist (not by trade but by lifelong obsession) in several different mediums, but also an AI engineer--so I feel a weird mixture of emotions tbh. I'm thrilled and excited but also terrified lol.
It's my fucking job. I've spent my whole fucking life getting good at drawing. I can probably manage to keep finding work but I am really not happy about what this is going to do to that place where a young artist is right at the threshold of being good enough to make it their job. Because once you're spending most of your days doing a thing, you start getting better at it a lot faster. And every place this shit gets used is a lost opportunity for an artist to get paid to do something.
I wanna fucking punch everyone involved in this thing.
I mean I get what you're saying, sucks to have someone or something take your job, but isn't this a neo-luddite type argument? AI is gonna come for us all eventually.
Please save this comment and re-read it when a new development in AI suddenly goes from "this is cute" to "holy fuck my job feels obsolete and the motherfuckers doing it are not gonna give a single thought to all the people they're putting out of work". Thank you.
Look at that, you said the same thing to me 8 days ago [0]. I'll stick to the same rebuttals you got for that comment as well, namely that AI comes for us all, the only thing to be done is to adapt and survive, or perish. Like @yanderekko says, it is cowardice to assume we should make an exception for AI in our specific field of interest.
Admittedly as someone who's been subscribing to Creative Cloud for a while I already wanna punch a lot of people at Adobe so the people working on this particular part of Photoshop are gonna have to get in line.
You got to move one step higher and work with ideas and concepts instead of brushes. AI can generate more imagery than was previously possible, so it's going to be about story telling or animation.
I make comics, it's already about storytelling and ideas as much as it is about drawing stuff. I make comics in part because I like drawing shit and that gives me a framework to hang a lot of drawings on. I like the set of levels I work at and don't want to change it. I've spent an entire fucking lifetime figuring out how to make my work something I enjoy and I sure bet nobody involved in this is gonna fling a single cent in the direction of the artists they're perpetrating massive borderline copyright infringement upon.
But here's all these motherfuckers trying to automate me out of a job. It's not even a boring, miserable job. It's a job that people dream of having since they were kids who really liked to draw. Fuck 'em.
This feels so wrong this AI thing, strangely enough Im not that stressed.
Look at the recursive side of it its hilarious. Im an artist. AI is around. Do I want to put my work online? No. So no artists put stuff online anymore? So how does future of art work exactly? Will send booklets by mail again?
There is the democratic side of it. We the people ultimately decides. Those pictures are generated by using artists works, not out of thin air. So not a freedom question here but a people one: do we want that or not? Maybe with 30+ years old pictures for example, could be good for economy.
I mean you can literally replace any job you want but the artist's it seems. Imagine when people will be jobless because AI replaced them. You'd think they'd want to make art during their retirement right?
Its a case where the snake eat itself. If AI ruins our online life, we'll stop going online.
Yeah going offline begins to look tempting except for the part that huge amounts of how you get people to want to pay for your work is by sharing it publicly. Except then someone can come along and scrape it all and dump it into their AI training black box without giving two shits about copyright.
All of the artists of the world will remove their online work. Who'd want to put their work online again? Its not even in the interests of the big players like Epic Games or Marvel or Disney. Nah I dont see how this is gonna fly.
Automation doesn't eliminate jobs. As such this automation won't eliminate your job, QED.
(It's bad monetary policy that eliminates jobs. The US has very very low unemployment right now so it doesn't appear that's been happening.)
Go ahead and try it. It'd be impossibly harder to create one of your own pictures with it than it was for your to make one. Instead what's going to happen is you'll get more efficient ways to do backgrounds and unimportant bits of an image, just like Blender CSP provide 3D models to do layouts with.
