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As an artist I am concerned about AI image generation

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114 points valgaze | 3 comments | 14 Aug 22 17:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.511s | source
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status200 ◴[14 Aug 22 19:54 UTC] No.32462361[source]▶
I think the tweet author is missing the meat and focusing on the gravy - they themselves indicate that the AI just replicates existing styles, so it will only ever produce existing art styles with the signature AI blurry weirdness on the details.

A main hallmark of breakthrough artists is inventing new styles and making them their own, a feat that AI has yet to perform very well (unless you include the aforementioned blurry telltales of generation and scrambled letters). Otherwise artists are just borrowing ideas from each other anyway so AI removes the need to learn someone else's style to replicate it.

In my opinion it will hurt the bottom tier of artists, but the ones who create new styles along with their own works will continue to thrive.

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karamanolev ◴[14 Aug 22 19:57 UTC] No.32462387[source]▶
Let's someone creates an AI where you describe your program and it writes it using only existing code snippets. It might put 90% or more of software engineers out of work. Saying "but software engineers who create truly innovative systems, design patterns, languages and approaches will continue to thrive" is very limiting.

I fully grasp the concern here. It's not unlike what happened during industrialization, but on an intellectual level. I don't know what the solution is. Basic income has been floated, but I'm having a hard time evaluating all the arguments for and against.

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dcow ◴[14 Aug 22 20:10 UTC] No.32462490[source]▶
What you describe sounds ideal for the software industry.
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1. karamanolev ◴[14 Aug 22 20:20 UTC] No.32462570[source]▶
Automated trucking, rail and ocean transportation sound ideal for the cargo industry, except for the millions of truck drivers. You put those people out of a job and you have a societal problem that needs to be solved. I'm not against progress in any way, but it comes with problems in need of a solution
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2. dcow ◴[14 Aug 22 20:27 UTC] No.32462632[source]▶
Of course it does! We'll figure it out.
3. wizofaus ◴[14 Aug 22 20:32 UTC] No.32462681[source]▶
Technology is supposed to put us out of jobs! But I'd argue it's been doing a pretty terrible job of it in the last few decades - we're all still working as much as we ever have been. Personally I'd love to have a tool that meant I only needed to spend half as long working to be just as productive. But it requires more than just technology to make that result feasible for the wider population.