Comment by nonbirithm
3 years ago
The problem arises if a bunch of studios start adopting AI assisted workflows to increase productivity and the studios that are holdouts get left behind because it would no longer be economically viable to continue animating without AI. It could be similar to how traditional cel animation has declined in use. If AI assisted output clears the bar for consumers, then it's probably good enough for managers.
People using AI professionally probably won't put the raw output of DALL-E straight into the finished work either, I've seen artists that use Stable Diffusion to generate a base image and then do heavy amounts of editing with Photoshop or similar.
We're talking about digital art and it would actually piss me off (a lot) if I didn't have original copies of the art I paid for to be modifiable later. Especially if I was using the work commercially.
I can of course imagine a situation where I might be able to get a PSD file or vector from DALL-E, but honestly I can't imagine myself sitting there telling DALL-E how I want it to modify my PSD in minute details, I'd just pay someone to do it.
This is where I think there is a practical misunderstanding when people talk about this subject, there is a lot of fiddly work and minutia that goes on with art which I just think people don't realize.