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I'm not tired of it. I think it's the most exciting technology at the moment. IMO, ML/AI is only going to get crazier in the coming years. We're in a period of intense and rapid development that probably won't end soon. Personally I'd like to see more products than research papers.

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We might be watching a mass disruption of art as a profession.

I think that's worth a few HN posts.

Certainly not. It's just a tool. Art is beyond generating digital images.

stable diffusion : artists :: expedia : travel agents

What?

They’re saying Stable Diffusion is to artists as Expedia was to travel agents.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy#Analogy_symbolism

It’s a format of denoting an analogy that many are only familiar with because it’s used in the SAT college entrance exam in the US.

> https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvqm/an-ai-generated-artwo...

https://www.expedia.com/taap-registration

Travel agents use Expedia Artists use Stable Diffusion

there are more travel agents today than there were before expedia

this metaphor is apt because it reveals that the gloom and doomers haven't actually taken the time to understand the industry that they're decrying the death of

It's only going to get better.

> We might be watching a mass disruption of art as a profession.

Like how mcdonald's disrupted the Michelin restaurants industry

It might change a very small subset of art creation, it's still far away from anything actually usable. ie it's cool to generate your DnD scenes for your weekend sessions, it won't replace an actual illustrator for a paid projects or fine art

The higher end of anything is always the last to get disrupted. There are still buggy whip makers [1] and those are the classic example of an industry killed by disruption.

In this case, it's not that there won't be any demand for art, but that the lower end of art jobs may become more like working at McDonalds.

[1] https://uswhip.com/our-products/buggy-whip/

I've seen creations that IMO are better than a lot of fine art I've seen. I acknowledge the point of fine art is not the art, but rather a conversation between the creator and the audience in an attempt to make them think or feel something.

This is some of the best art I've ever seen, to my tastes (found in a previous hn comment yesterday): https://youtu.be/Nz_n0qxqoPg

edit: Ironically, I just came across this article https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmvqm/an-ai-generated-artwo...

You say this in jest but think about how revolutionary fast food would be if it were introduced for the first time today. That's what happening with art.

Not just a disruption of the art profession but the way we use aesthetics in the world. One of the side effects is that these AIs can generate ideas in other fields. Given the right prompt you can ask for ideas for decorations, architecture, product design, advertisements and who knows what else. It's only a matter of time before it creates 3d images and gets connected to a 3d printer then we'll be able to print some of what we see.

At some point, we will be talking about the pre DALL-E world vs the one after.

Completely agree. Also, I believe that articles, tools, etc reaching the front page will diversify as these initial tools are built upon and taken different directions.

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