> Most of contemporary art is unaffected by the current AI craze.
The illustrators and digital artists I know would generally disagree.
As an abstract painter, I agree with you.
Significant genre specificity.
The illustrators and digital artists I know would generally disagree.
As an abstract painter, I agree with you.
Significant genre specificity.
When I scroll through the latest highly rated work on Midjourney, for example, I'm reminded mostly of tacky poster shop stuff.
Illustrators and graphic artists are in a hard spot given the commercial work they do. I’ve worked in this industry in the past and can attest that many of the contracts I executed on cared less about the originality of the output and more about the specifics of the prompt.
Generative AI is enough for a lot of clients, if the price is right, even when the output is subjectively bad.
I'm inclined to say that AI companies should have to pay for the training data they use although that does seem to mean only companies with billion dollar warchests can train AIs.
I feel sorry for the illustrators, and wonder how they'll be able to sustain their creative passions.