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As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation

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114 points valgaze | 5 comments | 14 Aug 22 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.776s | source
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MontyCarloHall ◴[14 Aug 22 18:28 UTC] No.32461617[source]▶
Transfer learning to emulate artistic style [0] has been around for the better part of a decade and has had zero impact on artists’ livelihoods.

People consume art because they enjoy admiring the human talent that creates it, celebrating that some individuals are capable of extraordinary feats the vast majority of people are incapable of. It’s the same reason people watch sports—they enjoy admiring the top echelon of human physical ability. Very few people would watch Olympic Games performed by realistic androids.

I do agree that tools like this could eliminate mediocre graphic designers, or anyone else creating visual products that are so mundane that their viewers never bother to consider the artist. Corporate Memphis [1] designers’ days are numbered.

[0] https://blog.paperspace.com/art-style-transfer-neural-networ...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

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1. kimi ◴[14 Aug 22 18:36 UTC] No.32461687[source]▶
> Very few people would watch Olympic Games performed by realistic androids.

Why not? a cyclist is a "realistic android" to a runner. It would just be different, more like F1.

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2. MontyCarloHall ◴[14 Aug 22 18:44 UTC] No.32461750[source]▶
People celebrate F1 drivers a lot more than the automakers. Senna and Schumacher are far more famous as individuals than the teams they drove for.

I guarantee that if there is ever a self-driving cup, people will be mostly focused on the human engineering talent.

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3. marc_io ◴[14 Aug 22 18:47 UTC] No.32461776[source]▶
> Why not? a cyclist is a "realistic android" to a runner. It would just be different, more like F1.

But the human element is the main thing. This is the crucial part. Take us out of the picture and there's nothing very meaningful left for other humans to see.

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4. kimi ◴[14 Aug 22 19:58 UTC] No.32462392[source]▶
Definitely - they would watch androids play because they'd root for a team and the people involved.
5. nomoreusernames ◴[14 Aug 22 20:16 UTC] No.32462541[source]▶
best comment.