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It will only be a tough time for the first few years.
I think the problem isn't the hours taken by the artist, but its the quality of the work.
Let me put it simply, you CAN generate images but how do you know that the first output is exactly what you need for ur use case? You start generating more and more prompts for the AI to filter the output and before u know it, u need to hire someone else to do it for u. Oh, and who can decide whether an art is good? Yes, the artist.
Also I have used midjourney and I didn't find that impressive that I thought it would replace artists. Companies have a habit of running with fads, that is all this is for now. -
Also, I have seen this thing where you can almost tell whether an image is generated by AI. I can't put my finger on it, but I sure can tell instantly sometimes.
This can hurt companies because if they used AI for icon generation, people will know it and they may not buy the product.
Real art where an effort is put by a human is something else entirely, completely different from what an AI produces. -
I think its more like the fundamentals will be for pleasure, while prompting will be for laying down a foundation.
Because even a professional artist can describe whats in their head quicker than they can draw it.
The artists that already know how to do art will just use this to iterate on ideas and create baselines faster, and the boost in quality will show. Basically it'll convert professional artists into seniors who sort of supervise the process more than participate in it.
It puts the onus on understanding representations, theory (lighting, composition, colors, art styles), before fundamentals like knowing how to translate a line in the real world (or in your head) into a line on screen.
Same I think is happening with ai-assisted coding. It codes at about the level of a junior. Those between junior and senior now become more responsible for supervision, more like seniors.
It means there will be more content, not less, and the bar will be higher, not lower.
I feel a little sorry for all illustrators and gig-creators of visual things out there. And yet I feel uplifted in spirit at the same time with the new era of midjourney that has just started.
It’s incredible!
Maybe you don’t understand if you are not in software.
It’s a giant leap of such magnitude that it is impossible to comprehend the entire scope of this revolution…
Small gig:ers get their money from very small and small businesses who can’t afford anything else. They are expert digital artists. The excel in being productive and can conceptualize a thought or idea in hours…
These hours have now been removed. Not all. But some. For the entire industry, this is billions of dollars I am sure.
So, they need to adapt to this new realm that we are entering.
It’s just… I mean, I can’t even realize it myself and I have played with prompting now for weeks and months… And it’s just 2023. /imagine what will be possible in 2030. 2050. If we survive.
I created a man (a hedge-fund manager) out of thin air. He stands in the super-market, looking tired, it’s evening… He has had a long day at the office…
And-he-does-not-exist.
And it took me five minutes. A rendering of such sort would probably take at least a day for an expert illustrator in photoshop or whatever.
Now, everyone will use this. You got this everywhere very, very soon. Including the gig expert illustrators! The thing is… I can’t draw a straight line but with text I can conjure up pretty much anything.
It’s magic.
That is what it is. I know it isn’t but it feels like it. For people without software skills it must feel even more like an illusion…
Need twelve icons of bumblebees illustrations to be used as icons on your new web site (as images)? Takes five minutes. An hour at most until you are satiesfied. In specific color ranges? You got it…
That shit cost like $99 bucks before if you needed to own them. And it took a week.
A revolution!
What fantastic times we live in!
And sad times and great opportunities for all visual artists out there.
(I am not at all worried for the dev industry. This will be SO fun!)
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