It’s the opposite of exciting if art is your job, lemme tell you.
I hope these end up similar to the relationship between Google and programming. We all know the jokes about "I don't really know how to code, I just know how to Google things". But using a search engine efficiently is a very real skill with a large gap between those who know how and those who don't.
Some ideas of how this could be useful in the future to assist artists:
Quickly fleshing out design mockups/concepts is the obvious first one that you can do right now.
An AI stamp generator. Say you're working on a digital painting of a flower field. You click the AI menu, "Stamp", a textbox opens up and you type "Monarch butterfly. Facing viewer. Monet style painting." And you get a selection of ai generated images to stamp into your painting.
Fill by AI. Sketch the details of a house, select the Fill tool, select AI, click inside one of the walls of the house, a textbox pops up, you write "pre-war New York brick wall with yellow spray painted graffiti"
But the definition of art can't depend on your knowledge of how was it made. I can show you two beautiful pictures and ask you if any of them is art, and you'd know I was trying to trick you. But you could pass a piece made by an AI as art if you didn't know how it was produced.
Eventually I suppose the AIs will also do the prompts.
At which point I hope we've all agreed to a star trek utopia, or it's gonna get real bad. Or maybe it'll get way better.
IIRC there is some vague "it sure got real bad" somewhere in the Trek timelines between "capitalism ended" and "post-scarcity utopia" and I sure am not looking forwards to living through those times. Well, I'm looking forwards to part of that, I'm looking forwards to the part where we murder a lot of landlords and rent-seekers and CEOs and distribute their wealth. That'll be good.
Also joking about murdering people is bad taste and not how you convey a point or win an argument. Very low class.
Recognising that doing the former without the latter demonstrably hurts people isn’t being hypocritical. Hence all the talk of post-scarcity. Post-scarcity for me not for thee is very much a sign of the times though.
I wanna fucking punch everyone involved in this thing.
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.
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.
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.
Im not stressed. We can and will manage this.
Not that I care all that much.
(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.
AI is a new tool that will automate away a lot of workers like other machines.
What happens with these workers is what defines us.
> Moravec's paradox is the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources. The principle was articulated by Hans Moravec, Rodney Brooks, Marvin Minsky and others in the 1980s. Moravec wrote in 1988, "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility".