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    I’ve seen some videos completely AI generated that looked flawless yesterday. Every day I feel more and more uncertain I’ll ever find a job again in the industry.

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      It’s funny how in most old scifi they showed a future where we as a society had AI working labor intensive jobs but art was a human-only activity. I guess we didn’t account for how bad capitalism was going to overpower our value.

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        I think artists like Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock have done a lot to preserve the humanity of art. For Andy, he would never need an AI to generate a soup can. Even if he did it’s Andys commentary and perspective that is coveted. The same is true of the most intricate paintings or sculptures and their creators. Jackson showed us the act of making art is just as interesting as the art itself. An AI could pop out a million abstract pieces that looked exactly like a Pollock but… it will never be a Pollock. AI is no more a threat to art and the people who make art than the camera was.

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        As of now, here is no humanoid AI robot replacing manual labor, just trained AI software/tools/APIs that run on computers and perform some specific and somewhat complex tasks.

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      As an artist I’ve been loving bing to help me model and design characters based on my descriptions. I’m good at knowing what I want and good at drawing and sculpting but the middle step is what I have trouble with.

      I’ve managed to create several new characters I’ve always wanted to and even put them in different poses and lighting and angles. It’s freaking awesome!

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        Holy shit, finally an artist not wishing the death of all AI image generation.

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        I am working on a homebrew for DnD 5e, may I know what tools you used? I have access to openai services ATM.

        I would like to try your iterative process to flesh out my characters!

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        Sure, it is awesome. That’s not my point. Did you find employment or are you making a livable income thanks to that though?

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          It’s a tool, like a calculator. Any expert in their field can derive usefulness from it by automating certain tasks. An experienced programmer or artist will always be able to answer interview questions for example.

          I think your question does not apply to OP. They are gainfully employed and use this tool to make their work more efficient and apparently able to create content they normally would not be able to.

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            To OP or to the person I was replying to? I think my first comment is relevant to the post, but the person who answered me next didn’t get what I was saying. Like I said, it is a very efficient tool. It means the work that required a team of, say, 5 people employing a specific workflow, can be now done by one or two with a totally different workflow. This means five people will have to retrain in a new field potentially not of their liking or matching with their natural abilities, and even if all five succeed you still have three out of work. That’s what I’m getting at, not the efficiency or usability of AI. Of course AI is incredibly useful.

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    The fact that one AI generated image looks incoherent or shitty doesn’t mean that all AI generated images are.

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      A lot of them are like that and that’s actually a good thing.

      It’ll be a little while before people can generate photographs that are indistinguishable from the real thing, completely destroying our ability to critically evaluate anything.

      So we still have time to stop it.

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        People can already, one has even won a contest.

        You can use offline image generation tools like Stable Diffusion if you have a powerful enough machine. Also, if someone generates an incoherent image and keeps it, it’s mostly for the sake of it, because you can try generating the image over and over again until something good comes out while tweaking the prompt and the negative prompt.

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          Man, my faith in humanity meter keeps dropping and dropping and dropping with every little thing I see on Lemmy today. Can we get some good news, please?

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        AI takes production out of the hands of corporations like Disney and into the hands of the people. You need a shit ton of money to hire hundreds of artists.

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            You’re like the people who got upset when calculators were first introduced into school systems because it would be detrimental to the way people learn. It’s a tool and those who are educated in their fields will utilize this to be more productive. It will not replace people wholesale.

            I understand your concerns but it is not as evil, clear cut as you imply.

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    I could make the same meme but swap AI and real artist and as an example of the “real artist art” use my drawings (and I’m like really bad at drawing). It would make as much sense as this meme. But I can’t really tell if it’s some AI art hater meme or just a meme. I sometimes see people meaning memes similar to this deadly serious, so sorry if I’m being a nitpick.

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    With the help if AI I will create the videogames I want without having to be Bethesda or some othe corporate grant. That’s what’s amazing.