More People Are Freaked Out by AI Than Excited About It
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On another topic, when desktop publishing first came along in the 80s, everyone had a go at it…. anyone with access to a computer threw together documents full of fonts and fancy layout. They looked like crap.
Remember Print Shop Pro?
In time it became clear that DTP is a tool for expert designers. Same with AI art … everyone is getting fancy pictures done but in time they’ll lose interest and these tools will become tools for designers to drive.
What are the skills that are necessary to make better use of AI for art (that will cause a non-skilled person to lose interest)?
It's an insanely crazy thing to watch the MJ Discord though, woah. However "draw a cartoon in the style of Ghibli" kind of get's boring and it's not original. It meses stuff up too, subtle enough to not be easy notice, but you do notice it eventuall.
You also realize many of these these model have a style of their own you have to work with, or work around to produce something new.
It's almost as if nothing is free?
People didn't stop desktop publishing. Almost everyone is doing it in some shape or form - from something as simple as drafting a CV, or writing a homework essay, or creating a simple form for their hobby club, is making use of text-layout technology where previously you would do this by hand (with a ruler, and handwritten/typewritten text) and then photocopied times however many copies you need.
Desktop publishing/typesetting has become so ubiquitous that it's effectively invisible and "just a thing that computers do nowadays". Perhaps the same thing will happen to AI art.
It's not the only cause, but it is almost guaranteed that it is a factor.
People forget that disruption has a real negative impact on those being disrupted, and not all of them can recover from it.
Technology makes it so more labour can be done with fewer humans, which increases competition for limited work, so capital owners can justify paying less for those jobs as long as they can find enough people willing to work for that amount.
You can blame capital owners for being greedy, and you should, but increasing technology is a major tool they are using to feed that greed.
Since there are negative effects as well, in our imperfect world, I can understand the nay-sayers. But that has never stopped anything.
It probably depends on how long your lifetime has been so far, but I can think of a few things that are greater technological developments than this in my lifetime. Integrated circuits, for a start.