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DeviantArt upsets artists with its new AI art generator, DreamUp

(arstechnica.com)
125 points akeck | 1 comments | 13 Nov 22 02:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.301s | source
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ta8645 ◴[13 Nov 22 06:01 UTC] No.33580501[source]▶
Artists are no different than all the people who tried to destroy the cotton gin or the automated loom. We're all going to have to live in a world where these technologies exist, and find a way to live a fulfilling life regardless. Just as chess players today enjoy the game even though computers have surpassed our chess abilities.

It seems odd to complain that computers are using human's artwork to inspire their own creations. Every human artist has done the exact same thing in their lifetime; it's unavoidable.

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1. Gigachad ◴[13 Nov 22 06:57 UTC] No.33580722[source]▶
Chess is competitive so you can regain enjoyment by just banning AI from competitions. Drawing is more outcome based, I can see it becoming somewhat obsolete like how photography removed portrait and landscape painters from jobs.

On the plus side. I can imagine this tech empowering artists to create more stuff they previously couldn’t. I’m imagining a single person producing a whole animation which previously was only accessible to companies and teams.