I expect more “artists are just spoiled aristocrats” radioactive takes, but I’m posting this anyway. :this-is-fine:
Soon all artists will be expected to use AI generation as a part of their process. Art will be so devalued that it will be the only way to make enough volume of work to make a living off of it. Resist all you might, but capitalism beat the luddites and it beat the communes and it will beat freelance artists too.
:doomer:
Weird take: the area where it will catch on first is children’s book illustrations.
Any hand-wringing about this by consumer advocates or within the publishing industry will be met with the same thought-terminating cliche that anyone who has concerns about the quality of children’s media should already be familiar with: “kids can’t tell the difference.” The devaluation you’re talking about will enter an irreversible end-stage once the children raised on AI art are adults.
Nah, children’s illustrations are too stylised. They don’t lend themselves well to AI.
I’d expect AI to be used for more generic stuff first. Stock photos, fantasy/RPG art assets, porn, etc.
There is a lot of super-generic low-effort art happening in the “dollar-store children’s books” space right now. The writing isn’t much better.
And one day Capital will die too. One day Sol will die too, burning out and sweeping away good and evil alike. Empires fall, seas change; to imagine that something as fragile as a hallucinatory human construct will be eternal is just plain vanity.
If we do not wish to die, the best we can do is evolve and leave our deceased yesterdays behind us.
So because Singularity™ desires, artists in the present should be screwed over or else the great death-cheating escape hatch potential in the speculative future is forfeit? :what-the-hell:
The folks who think they are “the Singularity” are damn fools. Who represents that group, exactly? Yudowsky trying to promote Alcor’s cryogenics tech even though it still doesn’t work? Fucking… ELON MUSK?
You know me, you know I abandoned my daydreams of seeing gay luxury space communism in my time. The only path to a bright future now is something humble, something respectful and human. The hollow men trying to use AI and neural nets to capture the future… they ain’t it. Innovation which does not respect the sanctity of life and the emotional well-being of everyone is a dead end. Love and cherish your limited corporeal being. Capital will try to take it from you, Capital will tell you that it isn’t enough or that you’re using it wrong, but that doesn’t make Capital any less mortal than you are.
Haven’t seen Ai models encroaching on the paper-mache vaginas with rusty nails driven through it market yet.
Nor will they. Fine Arts is unassailable because it isn’t actually defined as anything. It’s not a job, it’s a money laundering scheme you get paid for if you catch the attention of the proper people.
What this will destroy is the part of the art world that actually still cared about drawing and painting as skills.
the hatred towards artists and the entitlement towards art that i’ve seen these past few months has floored me. from both right wingers and “leftists” alike, it’s astonishing how little people seem to give a shit about people who know how to paint or draw, and how undervalued those skills are in our society. i was pretty depressed before, but ai art has tapped into a unique level of alienation i didn’t know was possible
Same. Saw a lot of “I’m not going to pay for commissions anymore”, “you are basically the luddites that wants to destory machinary”.
Apparently a lot of people think paying 30 bucks for hours of work is too much and artists are making crazy amount of money before this. Like the stereotype of “starving artist” exists for good reason and I doubt people go to art college to make money.
I draw as a hobby and don’t make money off of it so I’m largely unaffected, but it still put me off every time I see something like this.
Artists are just spoiled aristocrats and I’m tired of pretending they aren’t. Every time I go to my local portraitist to commission a headshot they’re always so sassy. “Oh the fourth this week Theodore??” they say like I haven’t told them that I prefer to go by Tedasamus, my grandfather’s uncle’s name. Disgusting! They should all be chained to radiators for all I care. Ta ta I say, ta ta!
I’ve seen that “artists are spoiled rich kids” take from people that went to NYC or LA and decided the bougie art scenes there were representative of artists as a whole. I’ve seen people that were dirt poor but took time out of their day to create works. Whether it was writing, painting, filmmaking, etc. These people had an itch that needed to be scratched and they were going to do it whether they made money off of it or not.
