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As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation

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114 points valgaze | 1 comments | 14 Aug 22 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. morelisp ◴[14 Aug 22 18:39 UTC] No.32461716[source]▶
It won't get rid of the bad ones, it'll hollow out the middle just like similar processes have everywhere else. There will be a few superstar concept artists making ridiculous amounts of money, a lump of often barely-competent copypasters/LLM-prompters doing it for $5, and no more space at all for people to have a career to comfortably grow and train their skills.