I think the concept/style argument has some truth.
Most people can't do that very well, and just copy existing work.
However, 99% of work that pays the bills is copying and grunt work, which it does seem very good at.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 20 Apr 2023, 9:01,
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That’s going to make paying the bills harder.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 20 Apr 2023, 19:23,
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But mass unemployment is considered progress.
Maybe everybody's next job could be fixing the machines that made them redundant. An exciting future awaits!
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Thu 20 Apr 2023, 21:01,
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Which doesn’t actually mean
“Yay, I can get AI to do my grunt work!”; it means that whoever needs the grunt work done will say “Yay, now I don’t have to piss about with expensive illustrators to get grunt work done”.
Not only that, but the person that uses the AI instead of hiring you won’t be saying “phew, I’m glad I’ve found a programme to create images for me” - instead that person will be saying “wow, I’m very good at art. Why did I ever bother paying illustrators and designers when I’m actually great at it, now I have this tool!”
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Not sure if I was being unclear,
but my point about grunt work was that it is a bad thing for creatives who need the boring work to fund the good work, and it will steal that work, not provide any good work. However, Photoshop has been doing that for years with each new feature it adds.
It's the smaller "time-saving" tools rather than the type-in-a-prompt-and-I'll-do-everything tools that seem the bigger problem in that regard.
Regarding “wow, I’m very good at art. Why did I ever bother paying illustrators and designers when I’m actually great at it, now I have this tool!” - there is a point where AI art just looks like placeholder shit, and it's likely going to be easier for a designer to start from scratch than try and salvage something, should they want the artwork to look professional.
I see it as the same as Wix is to web development. It gets you to a certain point, but without acquiring any skills along the way. The best you can hope for is mediocrity if you don't understand any of the details.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 21 Apr 2023, 12:28,
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