@RustyCrab There's this shitty youtube artist who keeps parroting that A.I.'s death is just around the corner. Poke fun at the idea in any way and he'll just delete it.
"People are only using it for a quick dopamine hit. It'll wear off. Nobody's replacing us" says increasingly-nervous nerd whose tablet has suddenly become a very expensive doorstop.
@Type_Other he's probably "right" for entirely the wrong reasons. Art as a profession is not going away and I really don't think that unassisted AI art is viable once the mystique wears away. It really does make a lot of terrible looking mistakes and looks all the same.
What's probably going to happen is some subset of artists are just going to adapt to AI tooling in whatever adobe suites they're using and they'll just start to work really fast with a higher degree of customization than prompting can manage.
Programmers are already going through this same change. They're just not freaking the fuck out about it because higher neural plasticity I guess.
@RustyCrab@Type_Other I spent the last several days learning how to generate interesting rpg-stye NPCs using a local LLM. I am still working my ass off, I am just orders of magnitude more productive.
@RustyCrab@Type_Other AI art is still relatively new and people are figuring out how to adapt to it. You are going to find some people in any group that freak out about changes like this or see it as their job ending because they can be replaced with a machine. Even in programmers.
I have seen writers (my craft) use AI in various ways too. Prompting it do things for them like find mistakes which can be great for writers starting out. So we will probably see more people finding ways for it to improve their work. I'm still going to write because it is my passion, even though AI can probably make that obsolete. I just don't pay much attention to what they are doing.
@RustyCrab@Type_Other Well, I'll be safe for a while then. Not that my field isn't already oversaturated with low quality work and storytelling and behaving as though it is greater than it is.
@RustyCrab "Looking the same" is a result of only picking the same style. There are a bunch out now that do watercolors, oil paintings, impressionism, pixels, and loads of others.
People's biggest mistake is only using text prompts rather than inputting their own seed images. If you seed in even something very simplistic, you can turn a stick figure into an awesome anime character with ease.
Text-only prompts suck because A.I. doesn't know how to count or who should be doing what, so "a sad woman and a happy man" usually results in both characters happy or both sad. Text-only also makes some funny homonym mistakes; e.g. any human would interpret "magical pike" to refer to the weapon and not the fish, but it doesn't really know, so enjoy your fish blade.
@Type_Other@RustyCrab Ai art just raised the floor of quality for artwork, and made medium quality art free. Which means total faggot furry porn artists death. It only makes them obsolete.
@Moon@inertia people don't understand that they don't actually have any power. They're just gay and retarded and world leaders also like things to be gay and retarded because it takes negotiation power away from the workers.
@RustyCrab@inertia Marx's original utopian vision was that the worker would be free to be a farmer one day, a poet the next day, however his whim might be. If you take away the fun art options, all that's left for them is farming. And commies are notoriously bad at it.
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